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“A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?”
― I Am America
― I Am America
“If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.”
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“Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed for us a stage where we made one of the most crucial decisions in human history. Forced to choose between limiting population growth or trying to increase food production, we opted for the latter and ended up with starvation, warfare, and tyranny. The same choice faces us today, with the difference that we now can learn from the past.”
― The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
― The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
“First, I must be getting the money on my side, because after magic wanes money is the most powerful thing on earth (followed by weapons that destroy whole cities in a go, and religion—that never goes away, damn it!—and lastly, female actors who do not wear much clothing).”
― The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
― The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
“Trinity’s witnesses responded just as those to Apollo 11 would, as J. Robert Oppenheimer remembered: "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent." Oppenheimer later said the he beheld his radiant blooming cloud and thought of Hindu scripture: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Aloud, however, the physicist made the ultimate engineer comment: "It worked.”
― Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
― Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
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