After-Orts #52
Scientists at the University of Manchester, in England, devised a method of crafting concrete bricks on Mars using a mixture of martian dust and human blood, but were unable to pursue a plan to create tools out of urine and feces ‘due to health and safety concerns.’
https://globalnews.ca/news/8191909/astronaut-blood-mars-concrete-tears-urine/
The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
— the concluding sentence of the Preface to How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2274/2274-h/2274-h.htm
What leads to the permanent sorrowfulness of burglars is that their principles are contrary to burglary. If they genuinely believed in the moral excellence of burglary, penal servitude would simply mean so many happy years for them; all martyrs are happy, because their conduct and their principles agree.
— from the same book, chapter VIII
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
—Martin Luther King, Jr.