Science fiction has the capacity to inspire by setting the vision of a radically better future, and by making it clear that the future won’t happen unless we put in the work.
~ Dan Wang
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The future →
Reading →
There will be no war and there will be no greed and all of the children will know how to read.
~ Gene Roddenberry
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Peculiar thinking →
Every man has some peculiar train of thought which he falls back upon when he is alone. This, to a great degree, molds the man.
~ Dugald Stewart
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Risk →
I do not intend to take dangerous chances, both because I have no wish to get hurt and because a fall would stop my experimenting, which I would not like at all. The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks.
~ Wilbur Wright
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Souvenirs →
Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn’t all a dream?
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
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Inlet to the soul →
The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
~ Hosea Ballou
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Everyone else →
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
~ Haruki Murakami
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Decide →
Decide! There is nothing in the world so pitiable as an undecided man, who wavers between two feelings, hoping to reconcile them, and does not understand that nothing can unite them.
~ Goethe
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Knowing →
This is the game we play: The only thing you really know is what you can put into words.
~ Alan Watts
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