Quotes

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Cary sez ...

Cary's epitaph ( ... less than 1,144 weeks left now .... ) will read:

===> ENTROPY sux! <===

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Burn your bridges behind you,
so the bastards won't catch up with you!
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Exercise your imagination, not your expectations
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Life is the most fearsome thing you will ever know
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If life is a pit stop on the long road of existence,
why is the service so bad?

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THE SIX PHASES OF A PROJECT 1 - Enthusiasm 2 - Disillusionment 3 - Panic 4 - Search for the Guilty 5 - Punishment of the Innocent 6 - Praise and Honor for the Non-participants -- Chart found on the wall of the Dallas offices of the defunct Superconducting Super Collider Lab. (From an article by Bruce Sterling, F & SF Magazine, July 1994 .)

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There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell. At some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us. It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.
-- Theodore Roosevelt to poet Edwin Arlington Robinson.

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I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists. - (Jubal Harshaw to Ben Caxton, in Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein)

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Put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket! - attributed to Robert A. Heinlein

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"The Earth is the Cradle of mankind, but one does not live in the cradle forever." - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1895

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"No plan, no matter how well designed, ever survives the first shot." - Old military aphorism

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I suspect that if humankind had never known sex, we would have invented it anyway: the women to celebrate friendship, and the men to celebrate themselves. - Gabriel Rusack

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All fled, all done,
So lift me on the pyre;
The feast is over
The lamps expire

- Robert E. Howard,
June 11, 1936,
last typed composition, moments before his suicide, at age 30

Cary STRONGLY recommends the MAGNIFICENT film, The Whole Wide World, an adaptation of Novalyne Price's memoir about her romance with Robert E. Howard, creator of the pulp hero, Conan the Cimmerian.

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