The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.
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Of the Ptolemaic system
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Chapter 2, p.32Richard Anthony Proctor
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The fact that there simply is 5,000 times more sun power than our consumption needs makes me very optimistic. It's a fantastic resource. We have the ingenuity to send man to the moon, so we definitively have the ingenuity to tap the sun's resources.
Derek Abbot
For as long as space remains
And as long as sentient beings remain
Until then may I too remain
To dispel the suffering of all beings.Shantideva
Capitalism had been more revolutionary then any previous social system. It had swept away without scruples old institutions and modes of thought, if they were found to stand in its way.
Eric Roll
It looks perverted and wasteful to us, but then one thing that empires are not about is the efficient use of resources and the spread of happiness; both are typically accomplished despite the economic short-circuiting—corruption and favoritism, mostly—endemic to the system.
Iain Banks
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
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