Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, … - Jack McDevitt

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How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

Jack McDevitt

Most of us sleepwalk through our lives. We take all its glories, its wine, food, love, and friendship, its sunsets and its stars, its poetry and fireplaces and laughter, for granted. We forget that experience is not, or should not be, a casual encounter, but rather an embrace. Consequently, for too many of us, when we come to the end, we wonder where the years have gone. And we suspect we have not lived.

Casual, Encounter, Forget, Laughter, Stars, Wine

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An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.

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The problem is that too often the only people who can act don't want change. Power doesn't so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

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If you're right, and nobody really cares what's out there, I wonder whether we're even worth saving.

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See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could look down at the planet, green and blue, with no borders in evidence and no sign of human habitation, and not get his perspective forever altered.

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If you're paying attention to your wardrobe, Rudy believed, your mind isn't sufficiently occupied.

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