"The Medium Is The Massage"
— Marshall McLuhan

"I happen to believe that you've sold us out.
I happen to believe that once any country yields its economic levers,
once a country yields its investments,
once a country yields its energy,
once a country yields its agriculture,
once a country opens itself up to a subsidy war with the United States on terms of definition.
Than the political ability of this country to sustain the influence of the United States to remain as a indipendent nation, that is lost for ever.
And that's the issue of this election."
— John Turner, 17th Prime Minister of Canada

"Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Rest enough for the individual man, too much, too soon, and we call it death.
But for Man no rest and no ending, he must go on, conquest beyond conquest.
First this little planet in its winds and waves. And then all the laws of mind and matter that restrian him.
Then the planets about him. And at last, out across immensity to the stars.
And when he has conqured all the deeps of space and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.
. . .
Little animals? And if we're no more than animals we must snach each little scrap of happiness,
and live and suffer and pass. Mattering no more than all the other animals do or have done.
It is this, or that, all the universe or nothing. Which shall it be.. which shall it be?
— Dr. John Caball, The Shape of Things To Come by H. G. Wells