“It's easy to put [serious threats] aside, and the media don't talk about them. Other things are more important. How am I going to put food on the table tomorrow? That's what I've got to worry about, and so on. It's very serious, but it's hard to bring out the enormity of these issues, when they do not have the dramatic character of something you can show in the movies, with a nuclear weapons falling and everything disappears.” ImportantHardCharacterShowsFallEasyWorryIssuesMediaSeriousTomorrowWeaponsTablesThreatDisappearNuclearDramaticNuclear Weapons Author:Noam Chomsky
“Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them ... Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.” IfsHumansNamesGrowsSidesIssuesConditionsHavensTomorrowCivilizationQuietDown AndRevolutionaryStreamsAgreementRebelHuman ConditionDeclineDesperationStagnantQuiet Desperation Author:Wallace Stegner
“(Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies... issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.” ForceSpaceTechnologyEconomyIssuesTomorrowProgramScientistFoundationInvestmentEducationalEngineersMathematicianFormationScience And TechnologyPipelineSpace Program Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“A bunch of people are gonna be mad at me, I’ve got some kind of medical issue that’s going to kill me in a while if I don’t deal with it, oh, and the island’s blowing up tomorrow and taking a whole lot of the country with it if I don’t fix it.” Thomas gave me a steady look. “So,” he said. “Same old, same old.” PeopleIfsLooksKindSaidCountryWholeDealsIssuesTomorrowMadMedicalBunchIslandsSteadyKill MeBlowing Up Book:Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen Source: Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen