Life is a series of choices, and the hardest ones are the ones that matter.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
"I am not a voice, I am a word."
Technological breakthroughs are not achieved overnight, they require long-term investment and patient accumulation.
The history of the world is the history of the few.