Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.Douglas Coupland
Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.Neil deGrasse Tyson
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.Socrates
Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.Chuck Palahniuk
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.Noam Chomsky
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.Michel de Montaigne
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.Virginia Woolf
Coming out as an atheist can cost an academic his or her job in some parts of America, and many choose to keep quiet about their atheism.Richard Dawkins
