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Building up societies with “dead souls” is no great achievement.

— Chaim Weizmann

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There is no official anti-Semitism in Russia; anti-Semitism in Russia is a crime against the State.

Nothing is less compatible with military efficiency than political excitement.

There is an extremely thin line of demarcation between the ferment and the parasite.

Persuasion of others is to show that oneself is convinced.

Realities are very often more miraculous than dreams

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

William Shakespeare As You Like It (1599)

One country, one constitution, one destiny.

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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

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