In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe; a planet that is not too hot and not too cold; that has liquid water on the surface and where the gravity is just right for human beings and the atmosphere is perfect for them to breathe; where there are mountains and deserts and oceans and islands and forests and trees and birds and plants and animals and insects and people; lots and lots of people. Where there is life. Some of it, possibly, intelligent. ~Stephen Hawking
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The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications. ~Starhawk
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If we have any hope of finding ways for seven billion people to live well on planet with finite resources, we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Plastic bags are neither efficient nor environmentally friendly. ~David Suzuki
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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
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Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men ~Tunku Abdul Rahman
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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I don't walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. It's worse than bleak, it's apocalyptic. ~Mark Leyner
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We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn't it comforting to know God isn't ever broken? He isn't ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next. ~Lysa TerKeurst
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We are focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important. ~John W. Snow
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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If you cannot explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood . ~Richard P. Feynman
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself. ~Chinese Proverb
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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. ~African Proverb
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Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously? ~Steve Stevaert
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. ~Yoruba Proverb
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Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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In 1950, American families sent 1 of 50 of their hard earned dollars to Washington; today it is 1 in 4. ~John Ensign
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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All the stars that never were, are parking cars and pumping gas. ~Dionne Warwick
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I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics. ~Gracie Gold
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