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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.


L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

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ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.
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ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. My definition of a free society is where it's safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will s...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy o...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and whe...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which americans submit to speeches.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Most exciting ideas are not important. Most important ideas are not exciting. Not every problem has ...
DANIEL E GEER JR. Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Bearing false witness is not just one of the Ten Commandments. The Bible has numerously repeated war...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a ...
WILLIAM E. CONWAY, JR. If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics...
WILLIAM E. CONWAY, JR. Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation.
EDWIN E. ALDRIN JR. Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on studen...
E. D. HIRSCH JR. It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people are rarely the ones who are the smartest or most...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Love is the agreement between the mind and the heart
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. Don't get something that will satisfy you for a moment, Do something that will make you happy for a ...
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. You cannot have quality if you do not have equality.
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. At times, some are able to make up for what they lack in skill or ability by a sincere and genuine d...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Some people are sadly oblivious to the fact that knowing how to say something negative or sarcastic ...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Some never recognize or will even acknowledge their own personal lack of education or intelligence, ...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Success starts with the right mindset, not with the right situation.
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. Like racist white-supremacists and sexist bigots, there are hetero-supremacists that are heterosexis...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Resorting to slander and ridicule as the basis of reasoning for an argument - admits and confesses t...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Ridicule first, then shame and condescension are the weapons and ammunition - in the mental manipula...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people with the least education or variety of life expe...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Knowledge cannot be measured; it can be seen with hardwork
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. Some people are sadly oblivious to the fact that knowing how to say something negative or sarcastic ...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR.