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“It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.”

Ifs Made Would Be Chance Fairs Pity Contact Frustrated

Book:The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver

Source: The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver

“Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard”

World Girl Nations Change Chance Boys Generations Heard Havens Pity Changing The World Melody Sweetest Boy And Girl

Author:Alvin Toffler

“How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.”

“Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.”

Persons Reason Values Religious Chance Seeing Claims Following Pity Accustomed Arbitrary Religious Values

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation.”

Father Grows Chance Creation Pity Hiding Hiding Place

Book:The Very Best of Bob Marley (Songbook)

Source: The Very Best of Bob Marley (Songbook)

“What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.”

Giving Asks Justice Chance Legs Pity Injury Benevolence Interference

Book:The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches