“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
― Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
“You don't get what you want, you get what you can”
― The Great Pearl of Wisdom
― The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“There is no human relationship that is not based on self-interest”
― The Great Pearl of Wisdom
― The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“[...] It’s not your job to fix the world; it’s your job to live well. That’s your birth right. Everyone knows it, but far too few people actually take to implementing it.”
― A Poker Game of Love
― A Poker Game of Love
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
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