I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus; unquestionably the all‐ time cosmic record for poor shots.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Pirates of Venus

We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian ‐ I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.
Ray Bradbury

It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.
Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt, Apollo 17 Moonwalker

Currently we see around us an ever more apparent loss of vigor of our society: increasing fixity of the power structure and bureaucratization of all levels of life; impotence of political institutions to carry off great projects; the proliferation of regulations affecting all aspects of public, private, and commercial life; the spread of irrationalism; the banalization of opular culture; the loss of willingness by individuals to take risks, to fend for themselves or think for themselves; economic stagnation and decline, the declaration of the rate of technological innovation…Everywhere you look, the writing is on the wall.
Robert Zubrin, The Case for Mars

I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel … the fear and empire of man had passed away.
H. G. Wells, The War of the World

This Way To A Dream, Peter Pearson

Sound Of Silence, Violet Orlandi, Anthony Vincent, Karim Kamar

Try (just a little bit harder), Milk'n Blues

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