Quotes
"I am unable to accept the idea that I should be an
obedient subject of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs
who pontificate about freedom while enslaving the
population." - John Pugsley
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"You can have anything you want in life if you will help
enough other people get what they want." -Zig Ziglar
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere
ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther
King, Jr.
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human
stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert
Einstein
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"The difference between stupidity and genius is that
genius has its limits." -
Albert Einstein
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“Look again at that pale blue dot (a distant photo of
earth from Voyager 1). That's here. That's home. That's
us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone
you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived
out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering,
thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic
doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and
coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every
king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother
and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every
teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every
"superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and
sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote
of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants
of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely
distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how
frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to
kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the
rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors
so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the
momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion
that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are
challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a
lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our
obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that
help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.
There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to
which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not
yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we
make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and
character-building experience. There is perhaps no better
demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this
distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our
responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and
to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home
we've ever known.”
? Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future
in Space
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"We hunger for significance, for signs that our personal
existence is of special meaning to the universe. To that
end, we are all too eager to deceive ourselves and others,
to discern a sacred image in a grilled cheese sandwich, or
to find a divine warning in a comet. Today we know exactly
where comets come from, and what they are made of." ...and
so it is with much of the world around us... - Dr. Neil
deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos, A Spacetime Odyssey, Episode 3,
When Knowledge Conquered Fear...
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"I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today
about the world then I knew yesterday, and lessen the
suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets
you." - Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson
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"Science works on the frontier between knowledge and
ignorance and is not afraid to admit what is not known.
There is no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend
that we have all the answers." - Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Cosmos, A Spacetime Odyssey, Episode 2 - Some Of The
Things That Molecules Do...
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"In the struggle between our desire to determine who and
what we will be, and the identity which biology defines
for us, there can only be one outcome. But even in
victory, their are forces biology cannot defeat - the
stirrings of the soul, the mysteries of desire, the simple
truth that the heart wants, what the heart wants..."
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"The secret of success is making your vocation your
vacation." - Mark Twain
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"Thinking gets in the way of right action" (a martial arts
quote about self defense, that can be applied well to
music performance)...
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"Know that your kindness has a ripple effect in the
universe."
- Billy Cox