Perhaps the best motivation for going to Mars is political. It is obvious that no single nation currently has either the will or the resources to do it alone but a consortium of nations and space agencies could achieve it within 20 years.
Truth may be stretched but cannot be broken and always gets above falsehood as does oil above water.
Love and war are the same thing and stratagems and policy are as allowable...
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
The truth was much more beautiful.
Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
