136 Quotes by A.G. Riddle

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    Why is it that we only appreciate things we’re at risk of losing?

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    If you fly too high, the sun will melt your wings. If you fly too low, the sea’s dampness will weigh you down. The story rang true to Desmond. The market’s exuberance and implosion were in league with the allegory of Icarus, but so was life. People who flew too high – who lived beyond their means and ability – were bound for failure. As were those who never took a chance. Despite.

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    Laws can only take us so far, and they must be based upon something – a shared moral code that rises from something. As that moral foundation recedes, so will society’s values.

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    The journey is the destination. Finding the answers for yourself, achieving understanding, is part of your journey.

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    Think about it logically: we came here on a spaceship that employs concepts in physics your race hasn’t even discovered. You putt around this tiny planet in painted aluminum cans that burn the liquefied remains of ancient reptiles. Do you honestly think you could beat us in a fight?

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    Great marketing can sell an inferior product for a short time. Only a strong product can sell itself.

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    So you don’t want to believe?” “With science, what I want is irrelevant. Proof of a hypothesis is all that matters.

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    Seeing the world that, as a child, he had once thought so unimaginably vast, nearly limitless in size, reduced to a tiny ball, floating there, swallowed by the immensity of the universe, reminded Milo of how small he was, how minute a single life was – just.

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    Passion, rage – no matter how much we evolve, man can’t escape these instincts: our heritage as beasts. We can only hope to control the beast inside us.

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