Michael Flynn Quotes

#1. The Luna-Ganymede Race went down in history, and the magnetic sail went down to the fusion thruster. Terranova should never have taken the bet, but it was a matter of pride - and prive loves loss above surrender.

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#2. Niederhochwald. She seemed determined to work her way through the

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#3. I know what I have said, but not what you have heard.

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#4. You would rather think about the good than do it.

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#5. The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.

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#6. Each man sees what his own experience has taught him.

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#7. Peace needs the consent of all, while one alone may raise a war.

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#8. When princes flee battle, and knights turn free-lance, and barons rob pilgrims, what value has honor?"
"Why, all the more, seeing how rare it has become.

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#9. When your words come out of your mouth and back into your ear, your brain gives them a second rinse, and cleans them up a little better. All Tom knew was that when he tried to explain things to Sharon, his own thinking clarified.

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#10. Of this his head was convinced, however doubtful his bowels.

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#11. But what is hope? When all else is lost, it is the one thing you may keep.

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#12. One finds both good men and bad in the Church. By our fruits we will be known, not by what name we have called ourselves. I have come to believe that there is more grace in becoming wheat then there is in pulling up weeds.

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#13. Dirac found that the ratio of the electric force to the gravitational force of an electron-proton pair is roughly equal to the ratio of the age of the universe to the time it takes light to traverse an atom.

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#14. That is the way of it among heretics. They start questioning one doctrine and end up questioning everything. No wonder they used to burn them.

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#15. One cannot love a world. It is too large. But a fleck of ground so far as his eye can see, one may hold precious above all.

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#16. Tom was deep in MEGO by then. My Eyes Glaze Over. Normally, he was fascinated by matters statistic, but look up "fascination" someday.

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#17. Could distance in one direction differ from distance in another? It's always faster coming home.

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#18. If you look in the dictionary under 'white trash' there's a picture of my family."
from BREAKFAST WITH NERUDA, p 37

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#19. Bad luck was a fact of life and one dealt with it or not.
Good luck, on the other hand, was something one created.

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#20. Any fool can hope when success lies plainly in view. It wants genuine strength to hope when matters are hopeless.

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#21. The sentries might not be the most alert, but they might have marked a skulking, five-shoe tall grasshopper.

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#22. One recalls the literary writer who, after grasping a story of a Mars voyage as a metaphor for isolation and the precariousness of relationships, realized that at a deeper, more subtle level it might even be a story about an actual trip to Mars!

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