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Carl Sagan
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
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Stephen William Hawking
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'
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D. H. Lawrence
Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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Alexandra Stoddard
What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
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Albert Einstein
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
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William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
My library Was dukedom large enough.
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Elbert Hubbard
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
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Herbert Agar
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
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Oscar Wilde
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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Henry Miller
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it
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Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.
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