When the people have to leave a place, their dreams leave first. - Robert Sheckley

He said, “Don’t you think that pleas based on upon the assumption of one’s own objectivity are somewhat disingenuous, to say the least?”
The crowd nodded. The tall man said easily, “Granted that all personal judgments are inherently biased. Still, judgment is the only instrument of discrimination at our disposal, and it is our work as living, developing creatures to make discriminations, from which value-judgments inevitably flow. This must be done despite the subjectivity paradox implied in making an ‘objective’ statement. That is why I say unequivocably that you were in the wrong, and no amount of reference to the observer observed dichotomy is going to change that.”

Time devours our feeble mortality, leaving us with but the sour residue of memory.

All his studies had been for extraterrestrial exploration. There was no place for him on Earth; and now he was barred from space.