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41 " The age of exploration has now moved to outer space, and so have its hobgoblins. The sailor in the heavens, like the mariner of old, is harried by the spectre of sailing into a falls — not a water falls at the edge of the earth but a space falls nested in his course as a black hole. "
― Agona Apell , The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock
42 " Oratory is the highest form of music "
43 " Busy mouths grow on idle heads "
44 " The great aim of the dating game is to find that one person who can stand at the bottom of your heart and touch the top of your mind "
45 " It used to be that a man could keep out of trouble if he behaved himself. Now he will only keep out of trouble if he behaves himself, the police behave themselves, and court behaves itself. "
46 " Happy homes are filled with the noise of children; unhappy homes the noise of their parents "
47 " Global warming will not end by Earth finding a shade under the trees but under our hands joined together "
48 " In sweetness nothing surpasses love reborn "
49 " The world would sooner bury a live rat than it would a dead lion "
50 " While the alchemist of old sought to turn lead into gold, the modern alchemist has a more noble dream: to turn men from rot to rock "
51 " It takes hard blows to raise a drumbeat but only one soft touch to raise a heartbeat "
52 " The most intelligent members of the animal kingdom are human beings; so are the most stupid "
53 " The true worth of a man is not seen in the value his money gives him but in the value he gives his money by the uses he puts it to "
54 " There is only one success for all humanity: to have a positive impact on the preservation and prosperity of life. Any achievement other than this is at best merely a platform to pursue real success. "
55 " Some instincts are best left uncivilized "
56 " If it is legitimate to kill in self-defence then it must be equally legitimate to steal in self-defence "
57 " If our prehistoric ancestors visited us today they would find that while we now dwell in different huts, the hearts that dwell in us are still the same; and while we now drive different things, the things that drive us have also never changed. "
58 " Our hearts gain from the weight of fear what the athlete's limbs gain from the weight of dumbbells, but only if like the athlete we do not carry that weight all day but learn to set it down before the stress of exertion begins to crush the sinews it was meant to build. "