How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, people who are around each other a lot, get close, and end up hooking up. So it's no great mystery why bosses and secretaries or co-workers or classmates end up dating each other.


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Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to t...
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No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.
BARNEY OLIVER
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but ineffi...
BARNEY OLIVER
The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be investe...
BARNEY OLIVER
If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far fro...
BARNEY OLIVER
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicatin...
BARNEY OLIVER
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
While resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His h...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody'...
OLIVER TAMBO
My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raise...
JOHN OLIVER
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
OLIVER HERFORD
If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a ...
VIC OLIVER
Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant min...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it ...
OLIVER CROMWELL
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men c...
OLIVER CROMWELL
This book fills a much-needed gap.
OLIVER HERFORD
Diplomacy: lying in state.
OLIVER HERFORD
There is no time like the pleasant.
OLIVER HERFORD
Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
OLIVER HERFORD
The bubble winked at me, and said, "You'll miss me brother, when you're dead."
OLIVER HERFORD
One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's coco...
OLIVER NORTH
To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again...
MARY OLIVER
You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
Make the iron hot by striking it.
OLIVER CROMWELL
One never rises so high as when one does not know where one is going.
OLIVER CROMWELL
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
OLIVER WENDELL