“Wanted. Men for hazardous journey. Low wages. Bitter cold. Long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in the event of success.”
Ernest Shackleton’s 1907 ad in London’s Times, recruiting a crew to sail with him on his exploration of the South Pole
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A remarkably close prediction:
“There is no question about it. In the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has.”
Robert F. Kennedy (stated in 1961, when Robert was Attorney General, and while his brother John was President. Barack Obama was elected 47 years later)
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“E pur si muove.”
[translation: "It still moves."]
Galileo Galilei (muttering under his breath at Inquisition, after he had publicly recanted his position on Earth’s movement)
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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
- Philip K. Dick
“You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”
- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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