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- Great necessities call out great virtues.
- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
- We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
- I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
- Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)
- Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.
- Britney Spears (1981 - ), on her web site, October 2004
- The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), First on the Moon, 1970
- I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Address to US Congress, 1975
- A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), First on the Moon, 1970
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