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- We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), Der Spiegel, 1989
- Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is the tightly held conceit that we are all sexual gods. How can I believe in my own uniqueness when there's a cat out there exactly the same as me?
- Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
- For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is...
- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Birds of a Feather, 1993
- By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
- There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
- Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.
- Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
- One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids.
- Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
- I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
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