Major Themes
Space exploration, life on Mars, the nobility of self-sacrifice, and the folly of trying to out-guess God.
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Famous quotes containing the words major and/or themes:
“With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely good manners. You may judge which motive is the more reliable.”
—Robert Bolt (1924–1995)
“I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)