Stanisław Lem quote: "And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread."

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DON MCCOY

The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
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If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is...
PAUL DAVIES

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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

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JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY

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BUZZ ALDRIN

We expected that there might be Earth-mass planets here because the planet we know about is weird. I...
JAYMIE MATTHEWS

Înţelege tot. Eu îl insult şi el mă urăşte. Sau invers" rîdea el.
GIOVANNI ARPINO

Mai tii minte cat visai? Mai visezi?
GIOVANNI ARPINO

It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The fact that no traces of agent have yet been found and that other chemicals that one would not exp...
JONATHAN TUCKER

It's a beautiful thing. We're definitely disappointed as a team [for the overall record]. But they'r...
DONTRELLE WILLIS

When he went to his neck and said, 'I'm done,' I knew we needed to take him out of the game. Hopeful...
BRAN ARNSBERG

You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS

Asteroids are the leftover building blocks of rocky planets like Earth. We can't directly see other ...
CHARLES BEICHMAN

When we heard about the Bay Street production and how wonderful it was, we knew audiences would love...
MICHAEL PRICE

Pilots would get there and would be walking around and people would ask if they could fly someone el...
FRED QUARLES

The magnificence of such objects hardly pertains to the human. They live only in a world of icons an...
ANGELA CARTER

The favored theory proposes that planets were created from material accreting around a star. Around ...
BOHDAN PACZYNSKI

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellu...
TOMMY LEE JONES

The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS

He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS

I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS

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AMAL CLOONEY

I knew Dick wasn't going to just be sending a box of Pampers. He'd be dreaming large about how to re...
RANDY RIDDLE

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY

Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY

no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the...
SUN RA

The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking ...
STEPHEN LABERGE

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Now we can finally start thinking about that final game, and we are really excited. It's a huge game...
KYLE CHIPCHURA

Astronautics, strictly speaking, will be concerned with voyages to other stars. Remarkably enough, t...
FRITZ ZWICKY

Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction wr...
MARTIN REES

A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that's it...
JEFF TWEEDY

I'd worked for, during one period, for a PR firm, and for a while Rock Hudson was a client of ou...
ROBERT OSBORNE

You never like the first pitch to be taken deep. But it's not about how pretty it is, it's about wal...
HUSTON STREET

As a team, we talked about starting the year strong. We thought 3-0 would be something fabulous for ...
DAVID HEARN

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all ...
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all...
J.M. BARRIE

The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her ha...
JOHN BURROUGHS

Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

Ive often thought that if our zoning boards could be put in charge of botanists, of zoologists and g...
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS

I've often thought that if our zoning boards could be put in charge of botanists, of zoologists and ...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS

We have some plans for expanding Park Place Estates, but it's not yet on the calendar. The cost for ...
MIKE DONLIN

The mass of our planet earth is only around 0.0003% of the total mass of this solar system, whereas ...
THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU

The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about...
GEORGE SMOOT

Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advanc...
ELIZABETH GILBERT

Dreaming is not only an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagin...
MILAN KUNDERA

We never would have thought that when we were kids we would be here, ... We just thought that we wou...
LEROY BURRELL

That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Picture an ant walking. That is about the change of speed we would need.
EDWARD LU

June was best friends with Robert Duvall, and I was directing a movie with Duvall and they were cons...
JAMES KEACH

Maybe I'm dreaming you. Maybe you're dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and eve...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about ~where~ we shal...
CARTER HEYWARD

First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making ...
GEORGE PAPANDREOU

We came to meadows full of flowers. We saw and realized that they were there, but we had no feelings...
VIKTOR FRANKL

She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR

You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

It's not the first time we've done a program that we knew would be a challenge.
MARK VOLPE

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DOUGLAS ADAMS

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JAMES C. DOBSON

Immortality is the negation of death. We do not usually speak about 'innatality' - about hav...
RUDOLF STEINER

We went to Nike, which knew us from the other magazine, and Nike agreed to buy the back cover of our...
BOB BABBITT

We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

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C. JOYBELL C.

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STEPHEN CHBOSKY

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STEPHEN CHBOSKY

We are seeing the most intense bargaining among big states that we have seen since the end of the Co...
GRAHAM ALLISON

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SABRINA LLOYD

In 1998 this case started as licenses for bribes, and if anyone would have said when we first heard ...
PATRICK COLLINS

I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG

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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY

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LUCY GREALY

The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)

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GARY F EVANS...

The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
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And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.

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Stanisław Lem

And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.

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