tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-100039372024-02-08T20:30:56.485+08:00The Greatest QuotesKoh Xuan Yanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13767635554667886016noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10003937.post-4419203391505074232015-12-25T06:00:00.000+08:002015-12-28T09:59:56.861+08:00Nature & Travel<div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Mark Twain</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As fast as winds,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As calm as forests,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As aggressive as fire,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As steady as mountains. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Sun Tzu</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel. That is the purpose of Life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">No catastrophe has ever yielded so much pleasure to the rest of humanity as that which buried Pompeii and Herculaneum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Hope Franklin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Pat Conroy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Cesare Pavese</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ursula K. LeGuin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Meher Bab</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are all travelers who are journeying... not knowing where the next day of our life is going to take us. We have no understanding of the surprises that are in store for us. Steadily we will know, understand and decipher and then it will all start to make sense. Until then keep travelling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Anonymous</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the beginning was the book of Nature. For eon after eon, the pages of the book turned with no human to read them. No eye wondered at the ignition of the sun, the coagulation of the earth, the birth of the moon, the solidification of a terrestrial continent, or the filling of the seas. Yet when the first primitive algae evolved to float on the waters of this ocean, a promise was born - a hope that someday all the richness and variety of the phenomena of the universe would be read with appreciative eyes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Garg G. Tibbetts (2012)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Goethe said that he who cannot draw on 3,000 years of learning is living hand to mouth. It could just as well be said that individuals who do tap deeply into this rich cultural legacy are wealthy indeed. Yet the paradox is that much of this wisdom is buried in a sea of lesser books or like lost treasure beneath an ocean of online ignorance and trivia. That doesn’t mean that with a little bit of diligence you can’t tap into it. Yet many people, perhaps most, never take advantage of all this human experience. They aren’t obtaining knowledge beyond what they need to know for work or to get by. As a result, their view of our amazing world is diminished and their lives greatly circumscribed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- An Embarrassment of Riches by Alexander Green</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Have you ever watched an eagle held captive in a zoo, fat and plump and full of food and safe from danger too?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then have you seen another wheeling high up in the sky, thin and hard and battle-scarred, but free to soar and fly?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, which have you pitied the caged one or his brother? Though safe and warm from foe or storm, the captive, not the other!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There's something of the eagle in climbers, don't you see; a secret thing, perhaps the soul, that clamors to be free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's a different sort of freedom from the kind we often mean, not free to work and eat and sleep and live in peace serene.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But freedom like a wild thing to leap and soar and strive, to struggle with the icy blast, to really be alive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That's why we climb the mountain's peak from which the cloud-veils flow, to stand and watch the eagle fly, and soar, and wheel... below...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Robert Cramer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Lorraine Anderson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Reinhold Messner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Looking back across the long cycles of change through which the land has been shaped into its present form, let us realize that these geographical revolutions are not events wholly of the dim past, but that they are still in progress. So slow and measured has been their march, that even from the earliest times of human history they seem hardly to have advanced at all. But none the less are they surely and steadily transpiring around us. In the fall of rain and the flow of rivers, in the bubble of springs and the silence of frost, in the quiet creep of glaciers and the tumultuous rush of ocean waves, in the tremor of the earthquake and the outburst of the volcano, we may recognize the same play of terrestrial forces by which the framework of the continents has been step by step evolved. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Sir Archibald Geikie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of to turn up the bowels of the earth? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Sir William Hamilton</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our earth is very old, an old warrior that has lived through many battles. Nevertheless, the face of it is still changing, and science sees no certain limit of time for its stately evolution. Our solid earth, apparently so stable, inert, and finished, is changing, mobile, and still evolving. Its major quakings are largely the echoes of that divine far-off event, the building of our noble mountains. The lava floods and intriguing volcanoes tell us of the plasticity, mobility, of the deep interior of the globe. The slow coming and going of ancient shallow seas on the continental plateaus tell us of the rhythmic distortion of the deep interior-deep-seated flow and changes of volume. Mountain chains prove the earth's solid crust itself to be mobile in high degree. And the secret of it all - the secret of the earthquake, the secret of the “temple of fire,” the secret of the ocean basin, the secret of the highland - is in the heart of the earth, forever invisible to human eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Reginald Aldworth Daly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of volcanoes, those burning mountains that seem to discharge their materials from the lowest abysses of the earth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Oliver Goldsmith</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Empedocles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Andrea Gibson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the most curious and interesting reptiles which I met with in Borneo was a large tree-frog, which was brought me by one of the Chinese workmen. He assured me that he had seen it come down in a slanting direction from a high tree, as if it flew. On examining it, I found the toes very long and fully webbed to their very extremity, so that when expanded they offered a surface much larger than the body. The forelegs were also bordered by a membrane, and the body was capable of considerable inflation. The back and limbs were of a very deep shining green colour, the undersurface and the inner toes yellow, while the webs were black, rayed with yellow. The body was about four inches long, while the webs of each hind foot, when fully expanded, covered a surface of four square inches, and the webs of all the feet together about twelve square inches. As the extremities of the toes have dilated discs for adhesion, showing the creature to be a true tree frog, it is difficult to imagine that this immense membrane of the toes can be for the purpose of swimming only, and the account of the Chinaman, that it flew down from the tree, becomes more credible. This is, I believe, the first instance known of a "flying frog," and it is very interesting to Darwinians as showing that the variability of the toes which have been already modified for purposes of swimming and adhesive climbing, have been taken advantage of to enable an allied species to pass through the air like the flying lizard. It would appear to be a new species of the genus Rhacophorus, which consists of several frogs of a much smaller size than this, and having the webs of the toes less developed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Malay Archipelago by Alfred R. Wallace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The absolute extent of land in the Archipelago is not greater than that contained by Western Europe from Hungary to Spain; but, owing to the manner in which the land is broken up and divided, the variety of its productions is rather in proportion to the immense surface over which the islands are spread, than to the quantity of land which they contain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Malay Archipelago by Alfred R. Wallace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Returning now to the Malay Archipelago, we find that all the wide expanse of sea which divides Java, Sumatra, and Borneo from each other, and from Malacca and Siam, is so shallow that ships can anchor in any part of it, since it rarely exceeds forty fathoms in depth; and if we go as far as the line of a hundred fathoms, we shall include the Philippine Islands and Bali, east of Java. If, therefore, these islands have been separated from each other and the continent by subsidence of the intervening tracts of land, we should conclude that the separation has been comparatively recent, since the depth to which the land has subsided is so small. It is also to be remarked that the great chain of active volcanoes in Sumatra and Java furnishes us with a sufficient cause for such subsidence, since the enormous masses of matter they have thrown out would take away the foundations of the surrounding district; and this may be the true explanation of the often-noticed fact that volcanoes and volcanic chains are always near the sea. The subsidence they produce around them will, in time, make a sea, if one does not already exist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Malay Archipelago by Alfred R. Wallace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is hard to imagine while strenuously walking in the heart of an equatorial rain forest, gasping for every breath in a stifling humid sauna, how people could have ever adapted to life under these conditions. It is not just the oppressive climate - the tall forest itself is dark, little light reaching the floor from the canopy, and you do not see any animals. It is a complete contrast to the herbivore-rich dry savannahs of tropical Africa. Yet there are many animals here, evident by the loud, continual noise of large cryptic insects and the constant threat of stepping on a deadly king cobra. This was my first impression of the rain forest in Borneo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Clive Finlayson, “The Humans Who Went Extinct”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- St. Augustine</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Steinbeck</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Robert Louis Stevenson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feel once more happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Sir Richard Burton</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The use of traveling is to regulate the imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Samuel Johnson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you were going to risk all that, not just risk the hardship and the pain but risk your life. Put everything on line for a dream, for something that’s worth nothing, that can’t be proved to anybody. You just have the transient moment on a summit and when you come back down to the valley it goes. It is actually a completely illogical thing to do. It is not justifiable by any rational terms. That’s probably why you do it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Joe Simpson, “The Beckoning Silence”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I waited for Rob and, linking arms, we took our final steps together onto the rooftop of the world. It was 8.15 am on 24 May 2004; there was nowhere higher on the planet that we could go, the world lay at our feet. Holding each other tightly, we tried to absorb where we were. To be standing here, together, exactly three years since Rob’s cancer treatment, was nothing short of a miracle. Standing on top of Everest was more than just climbing a mountain - it was a gift of life. With Pemba and Nawang we crowded together, wrapping our arms around each other. They had been more than Sherpas, they had been our guardian angels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jo Gambi</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Standing beside each other, we feasted our eyes. Above us the cerulean sky deepened to an inky black as the remnants of the atmosphere gave way to the depths of space. The mighty Himalaya were now a sparkling relief map spread out before us and garnished with a gleaming lattice work of swirling glaciers. Even Cho Oyu, Lhotse and Makalu, all 8,000-meter giants, were dwarfed. To the east and west, Kanchenjunga and Shishapangma, two more great sentinels of the Himalaya, stood crystal clear over 100 kilometers away. To the north were the burnished plains of Tibet, and to the south the majestic peaks and lush foothills of Nepal. We stood on the crown jewel of the earth, the curved horizon spinning endlessly around us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jo Gambi</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The evening was calm, the calmest we had known above the North Col. The smooth, outward dipping slabs glowed in the fast setting sun and, at an immense distance beneath, clouds concealed the valleys and lesser peaks. There was nothing to obstruct the tremendous prospect. Seen from Everest, great peaks that dominate the climber as he toils along the East Rongbuk Glacier, and up the slopes of the North Col, show like insignificant ripples at the base of a great ocean roller. Even the North Peak was but a stepping-stone to quick-footed vision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Frank Smythe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was cold. Space, the air we breathed, the yellow rocks, were deadly cold. There was something ultimate, passionless, and eternal in this cold. It came to us as a single constant note from the depths of space. We stood on the very boundary of life and death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Frank Smythe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The night spread out of the east in a great flood, quenching the red sunlight in a single minute. We wriggled by breathless degrees deep into our sleeping bags. Our sole thought was of comfort; we were not alive to the beauty or the grandeur of our position; we did not reflect on the splendor of our elevation. A regret I shall always have is that I did not muster up the energy to spend a minute or two stargazing. One peep I did make between the tent flaps into the night, and I remember dimly an appalling wealth of stars, not pale and remote as they appear when viewed through the moisture-laden air of lower levels, but brilliant points of electric blue fire standing out almost stereoscopically. It was a sight an astronomer would have given much to see, and here were we lying dully in our sleeping bags concerned only with the importance of keeping warm and comfortable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Frank Smythe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To the east was our giant neighbor Makalu, unexplored and unclimbed, and even on top of Everest the mountaineering instinct was sufficient strong to cause me to spend some moments conjecturing as to whether a route up that mountain might not exist. Far away across the clouds the great bulk of Kangchenjunga loomed on the horizon. To the west, Cho Oyu, our old adversary from 1952, dominated the scene and we could see the great unexplored ranges of Nepal stretching off into the distance. The most important photograph, I felt, was a shot down the north ridge, showing the North Col and the old route that had been made famous by the struggles of those great climbers of the 1920s and 1930s. I had little hope of the results being particularly successful, as I had a lot of difficulty in holding the camera steady in my clumsy gloves, but I felt that they would at least serve as a record. After some ten minutes of this, I realized that I was becoming rather clumsy-fingered and slow-moving, so I quickly replaced my oxygen set and experience once more the stimulating effect of even a few liters of oxygen. Meanwhile, Tenzing had made a little hole in the snow and in it he placed small articles of food – a bar of chocolate, a packet of biscuits and a handful of lollies. Small offerings, indeed, but at least a token gifts to the gods that all devoted Buddhists believe have their home on this lofty summit. While we were together on the South Col two days before, Hunt had given me a small crucifix that he had asked me to take to the top. I, too, made a hole in the snow and placed the crucifix beside Tenzing’s gifts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Sir Edmund Hillary</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Just a rock, a dome of snow, the deep blue sky, and a hunk of orange-painted metal from which a shredded American flag cracked in the wind. Nothing more. Except two tiny figures walking together those last few feet to the top of the Earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Tom Hornbein</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The last few meters up to the summit no longer seem so hard. On reaching the top, I sit down and let my legs dangle into space. I don’t have to climb anymore. I pull my camera from my rucksack and, in my down mittens, fumble a long time with the batteries before I have it working properly. Then I film Peter. Now, after the hours of torment, which indeed I didn’t recognize as torment, now, when the monotonous motion of plodding upwards is at an end, and I have nothing more to do than breathe, a great peace floods my whole being. I breathe like someone who has run the race of his life and knows that he may now rest forever. I keep looking all around, because the first time I didn’t see anything of the panorama I had expected from Everest, neither indeed did I notice how the wind was continually chasing snow across the summit. In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single, narrow, gasping lung, floating over the mists and the summits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Reinhold Messner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Standing now in diffused light, with the wind at my back, I experience suddenly a feeling of completeness – not a feeling of having achieved something or of being stronger than everyone who was ever here before, not a feeling of having arrived at the ultimate point, not a feeling of supremacy. Just a breath of happiness deep inside my mind and my breast. The summit seemed suddenly to me to be a refuge, and I had not expected to find any refuge up here. Looking at the steep, sharp ridges below us, I have the impression that to have come later would have been too late. Everything we now say to one another, we only say out of embarrassment. I don’t think anymore. As I pull the tape recorder, trancelike, from my rucksack, and switch it on wanting to record a few appropriate phrases, tears again well into my eyes. “Now we are on the summit of Everest,” I begin, “it is so cold that we cannot take photographs…” I cannot go on, I am immediately shaken with sobs. I can neither talk nor think, feeling only how this momentous experience changes everything. To reach only a few meters below the summit would have required the same amount of effort, the same anxiety and burden of sorrow, but a feeling like this, an eruption of feeling, is only possible on the summit itself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- George Mallory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest ?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is no use'. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- George Mallory</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The end of the ridge and the end of the world... then nothing but that clear, empty air. There was nowhere else to climb. I was standing on the top of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Stacy Allison</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Getting to the summit is optional, getting down is mandatory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ed Viesturs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jon Krakauer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Reinhold Messner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Reinhold Messner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Reinhold Messner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest - it's only a mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Junko Tabei</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by others...it rises from your heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Junko Tabei</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Chris Bonnington</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We just lay on our bellies in the snow, gasping and immobile.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Peter Habeler</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Orison Swett Marden</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Francis Bacon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I should study Nature’s laws in all their crossings and unions; I should follow magnetic streams to their source and follow the shores of our magnetic oceans. I should go among the rays of the aurora, and follow them to their beginnings, and study their dealings and communications with other powers and expressions of matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Muir</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the Sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Roy R. Gilson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jawaharlal Nehru</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Muir </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you poison the environment, the environment will poison you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Tony Follari </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We share the Earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Dalai Lama</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have no other wish than a close fusion with nature, and I desire no other fate than to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Claude Monet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jacques Cousteau</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Loren Eisley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Joseph Conrad</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Keep discovering…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Emirates</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I traveled among unknown men,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In lands beyond the sea;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nor England! did I know till then</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What love I bore to thee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- William Wordsworth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Iain Sinclair</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Noel Coward</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Caskie Stinnett </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Marcel Proust</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- George Bernard Shaw </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Freya Stark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“What place would you advise me to visit now?” he asked. “The planet Earth,” replied the geographer. “It has a good reputation.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Antoine De Saint-Exupery </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Louis L'Amour </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">...travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Miriam Beard </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Better far off to leave half the ruins and nine-tenths of the churches unseen and to see well the rest; to see them not once, but again and often again; to watch them, to learn them, to live with them, to love them, till they have become a part of life and life's recollections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Augustus Hare</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Stephen Harrigan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The sea fires our imagination and rekindles our spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Wyland</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have slipped the bounds of Earth to dance with dolphins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Wyland</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The inhabitants of the sea have much to teach us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Wyland</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nature is the ultimate divine mystery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Wyland</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is no end to the wonders of the sea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Wyland</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of Neptune’s empire let us sing…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Thomas Campton</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry David Thoreau</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Rachel Carson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All is born of water; all is sustained by water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Goethe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To stand at the edge of the sea… is to have knowledge of things that are as eternal as any earthly life can be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Rachel Carson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Christopher Columbus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The day dawned grey and dreary </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The sky made of silver </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While the first snowflakes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Began to fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A lone bird chirped </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In a tree bare of its leaves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Standing on a lonely road </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I stood watching as the world </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Started changing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And I embraced the winter </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With memories of summer’s warmth </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Still in my heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And soon the snowflakes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Began to dance about me </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And I twirled around and around </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As everything </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Turned into a winter wonderland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Rasma Raisters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The rising sun faraway, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Turns the sky bright. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Coloring the ocean, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In hues of red and white. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love unfolds itself, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With the passing day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The ocean creates music, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As waves dance away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Like a dragon sometime - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hitting the shore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Eyes erupting anger, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Looking out for more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As the sun sets in, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Beauty plays its part. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dressed like a women, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With love in heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As night approaches, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Moon shines upon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Like a baby it sleeps, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With starry blanket on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Abhilasha Agarwal </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In shades of black and blue the skies do bow as darkness falls the lights go out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nature softly immersed in glee as all mankind drifts off to sleep. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Water breathes a sigh of relief now aquatic creatures can do as they please. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Animals whether large or small regain the natural instincts that man has fought. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The moon shines bright he's happy too people can't over-ride his rules. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Midnight calms the wounds of the world the break of dawn disperses new hope... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Zenith Elliott</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Push aside the limbs and brush and grasp the magic revealed through the branches. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Laugh at the breeze grazing your face, its crispness stiffens, pimply flesh awareness, invigorating that numbness you’ve taken for granted as comfort. See jagged mountains looming above massive foundations veiled in a drifting mist hanging in the valleys. Listen to the mystic whispers of secrets whittled away by haunted whistles, riding the wind. Hear the howl from chasms chiseled deep in stone older than time. Feel it rustle in the gristle of your mind. Bear witness rigid wisdom, swirling answers to the soul, stirring vivid visions, beyond the dizzy steeples of those snow bleached crags, reaching their peak in fitting existence for an exhilarating rush as they brush through wisps of clouds for fresh air. Notice the sheerness in cliffs, scarred with ancient sea-lines, reminders of where older oceans once combed along those canyons, tossing rollers that tore away, history awash with the slopes. Look quickly to see a cool gust dissipate the vapor of your breath, racing it away with a seagull’s ghost, for a rendezvous with aromas and spirits of eagles, gliding now then climbing within updrafts where sunbeams sharpen, seeming to bend at the edge of blue sky, for an extreme descent at last, blasting into contrasts, dampened as they blend with alpine shadows. Step upward, toward the nature of the lovely views that await you, in abundance at the summit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Earth Man</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Painting the desert, sun-setting the tone </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Starving backstage, morning-stars are jaded </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The moonshine murmur still shivers alone </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Curved slice of sliver, shear breath shadows stone </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Suspending twilight shiny and shaded </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Painting the desert, sun-setting the tone </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Carving solace into silver in June </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On horizons’ glow from forgotten gold </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The moonshine’s’ shilling delivers alone </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Gleaming duels of knights, pierce deathly silence </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Steel tines of starlight, clashing swords they hold </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Painting the desert, sun-setting the tone </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dimples aware, sparkle sand on the dune</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Winking at comets, after tails are told </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The moon-sand whispers, sift rivers alone </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sharpness they hone, filing skills onto stone </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Starlight dazzles, its own space created </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Painting the desert, sun-setting the tone </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From owls’ talon, moonlight shimmers alone </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Earth Man</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I see it fall. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So beautiful and light. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So very tranquil. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Untouchable in the night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pretty in white. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Like the stars at night. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The twinkle from the shine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The cold from the sky. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With every footprint left. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every snowman made. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With every snowflake fallen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Unique in every way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Kally Minami</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Winter opened its vaults last night, flinging fistfuls of crystalline diamonds into the darkening sky. Like white-tulled ballerinas dancing gracefully on heaven's stage, silent stars stood entranced by their intricate beauty. Motionless, I watched each lacy gem drift softly by my upturned face, as winter's icy hands guided them gently on their swirling lazy way, and blanketed the waiting earth in cold splendor. The shivering rustling of reeds, the restless fingers of the trees snapping in the frosty air, broke the silent stillness, as winter quietly pulled up its white coverlet over the sleepy earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Candida Eittreim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What is it to see, in an Eagle glide </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Which fills a human heart with so much pride? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Is it that it soars effortless above the Earth </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That steals us from our own limits & dearth? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Trapped in our seas of befuddling sludge </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We try and try but cannot budge. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And then to see a mortal; with such ease take wing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Up in a breeze that makes our failing spirits sing? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do we, vicarious birds, search in it our childishness - </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When we too were young & yearned in heart to fly? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Taking flights of fancy through adolescent nights </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Listening little, heeding less, knowing not why? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From its highest perch in the forest of snow </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Majestic - the Eagle soars alone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Riding thermals, lording clouds </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Till dropping silent from the sky as a stone </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But we, so quick and ready to fold </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Give up our wings at the whiff of age </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Losing years, cursing time, wasting spirit </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Living out entire lives in futile rage! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Anand Kapoor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Lao Tzu</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Walt Whitman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Alfred Billings Street</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple-leaves with an early moon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Alice Meynell</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Art gallery? Who needs it? Look up at the swirling silver-lined clouds in the magnificent blue sky or at the silently blazing stars at midnight. How could indoor art be any more masterfully created than God's museum of nature?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Grey Livingston</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry David Thoreau</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Lin Yutang</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Seneca</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- G.K. Chesterton</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Wendell Willkie</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out in the middle of the block against the lights... Nobody who has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- William T. Piper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Given angel's wings, where might you fly?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In what sweet heaven might you find your love?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Unwilling to be bound, where might you move,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lost between the wonder and the why?...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Nicholas Gordon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Mary Kay Ash</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The weather is warm </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The sun is out </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are people all around </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The waves come flowing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And hits the shore </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But makes so little sound </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The wind is blowing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh so softly </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The sand between my feet </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The dolphins jump </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The people watch </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They even take a seat </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I fly around </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Watching from above </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today is like everyday </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That is something I love </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ashley Huggins </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The rays of the sun </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">filter through the window </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">making me toasty </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and warm </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">burning the paper </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">browning the plants </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the magic you have </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">upon the world </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">through the summer </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">your always there </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">making us all so happy </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">a big ball of sunshine </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">for all to share </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jennifer Walker </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Alice Walker</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The world goes up and the world goes down, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And the sunshine follows the rain;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">can never come over again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Charles Kingsley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The land looks like a fairytale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Roald Amundsen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nature is the art of God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Thomas Browne</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore, there is society, where none intrudes. By the deep sea, and music in its roars; I love not man the less, but nature more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- George Gordon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- E. B. White</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Scott Westerfeld</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Walt Whitman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Christina Rossetti</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tonight, the moon came out, it was nearly full.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Way down here on earth, I could feel it's pull.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The weight of gravity or just the lure of life,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Made me want to leave my only home tonight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm just wondering how we know where we belong</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Is it in the arc of the moon, leaving shadows on the lawn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the path of fireflies and a single bird at dawn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Singing in between here and gone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Mary Chapin Carpenter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The great breathing mountains expand and contract. The vast sage desert undulates with almost imperceptible tides like the oceans. From the very beginning, throughout all its cataclysmic upthrusts and deep sea submergences, the planet Earth seems to have maintained an ordered rhythm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Frank Waters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Thich Nhat Hahn</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The clouds roll on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Silent as sleepwalkers the clouds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">keep coming from infinity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">bank behind bank</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and line after line,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">and change colors on the earth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Rolf Jacobsen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We sleep, and at length awake to the still reality of a winter morning. The snow lies warm as cotton or down upon the window-sill; the broadened sash and frosted panes admit a dim and private light, which enhances the snug cheer within. The stillness of the morning is impressive... From the eaves and fences hang stalactites of snow, and in the yard stand stalagmites covering some concealed core. The trees and shrubs rear white arms to the sky on every side; and where were walls and fences we see fantastic forms stretching in the frolic gambols across the dusky landscape, as if nature had strewn her fresh designs over the fields by night as models for man's art.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry David Thoreau</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Edward Abbey</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- James Baldwin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jacques-Yves Cousteau</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendor of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of several bodies all equally larger and distant, that most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on the other sides; and this is due to the fact that the wind turns up the reverse side of the leaves which in all trees is much whiter than the upper side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Water is the driver of nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favorable to serve as guide in various movements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is in the capacity of man to reproduce... but not with as much strength, deficient only in the power of maintaining equilibrium. We may therefore say that such an instrument constructed by man is lacking in nothing except the life of the bird.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Music may be called the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, the sense which comes second and her harmony is composed of the union of proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Heraclitus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Rudolf Arnheim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I hear one day the word “mountain,” and I ask someone “what is a mountain? I have never seen one.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I join others in discussions of mountains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One day I see in a book a picture of a mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And I decide I must climb one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I travel to a place where there is a mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At the base of the mountain I see there are lots of paths to climb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I start on a path that leads to the top of the mountain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I see that the higher I climb, the more the paths join together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After much climbing the many paths join into one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I climb till I am almost exhausted but I force myself and continue to climb.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally I reach the top and far above me there are stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I look far down and the village twinkles far below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It would be easy to go back down there but it is so beautiful up here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am just below the stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Robert Hensler</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Richard Preston, The Hot Zone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not obvious that they are linked. Events in a forest occur with precision in the flow of tree time, like the motions of an endless dance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Richard Preston, The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Richard Preston, The Hot Zone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Richard Preston, The Hot Zone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Richard Preston</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He saw virus particles shaped like snakes, in negative images. They were white cobras tangled among themselves, like the hair of Medusa. They were the face of nature herself, the obscene goddess revealed naked. This life form thing was breathtakingly beautiful. As he stared at it, he found himself being pulled out of the human world into a world where moral boundaries blur and finally dissolve completely. He was lost in wonder and admiration, even though he knew that he was the prey. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Richard Preston, The Hot Zone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There can be no greater ignominy for an enlightened rationalist than to perish in consequence of some incident involving spirits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Vojtech Novotny, Notebooks from New Guinea</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We woke periodically throughout the night to peel off leeches. In the light of the head torch, the ground was a sea of leeches - black, slithering, standing up on one end to sniff the air and heading inexorably our way to feed. Our exposed faces were the main problem, with leeches feeding off our cheeks and becoming entangled in our hair. I developed a fear of finding one feeding in my ear, and that it would become too large to slither out, causing permanent damage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Richard Mayfield (from Kinabalu Escape: The Soldiers’ Story)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off so as to expose to view this great seagash which separates continents, and extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic, it would present a scene the most rugged, grand and imposing. The very ribs of the solid earth, with the foundations of the sea, would be brought to light.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Matthew Fontaine Maury (1860)</span></div>
Koh Xuan Yanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13767635554667886016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10003937.post-34892061802451944362015-12-24T06:00:00.000+08:002015-12-28T10:00:38.870+08:00The Universe<span style="font-family: inherit;">Compared to the breadth of knowledge yet to be known, what does your life actually matter?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Europa Report (2013)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Only dream I ever have... is it the surface of the Sun? Every time I shut my eyes... it's always the same.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Cassie, Sunshine (2007)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Richard P. Feynman</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At the planet’s very heart lies a solid rocky core, at least five times larger than Earth, seething with the appalling heat generated by the inexorable contraction of the stupendous mass of material pressing down to its centre. For more than four billion years Jupiter’s immense gravitational power has been squeezing the planet slowly, relentlessly, steadily, converting gravitational energy into heat, raising the temperature of that rocky core to thirty thousand degrees, spawning the heat flow that warms the planet from within. That hot, rocky core is the original protoplanet seed from the solar system’s primeval time, the nucleus around which those awesome layers of hydrogen and helium and ammonia, methane, sulphur compounds and water have wrapped themselves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ben Bova, Jupiter</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jupiter is the largest of all the solar system’s planets, more than ten times bigger and three hundred times as massive as Earth. Jupiter is so immense it could swallow all the other planets easily. Its Great Red Spot, a storm that has raged for centuries, is itself wider than Earth. And the Spot is merely one feature visible among the innumerable vortexes and streams of Jupiter’s frenetically racing cloud tops. Yet Jupiter is composed mainly of the lightest elements, hydrogen and helium, more like a star than a planet. All that size and mass, yet Jupiter spins on its axis in less than ten hours, so fast that the planet is clearly not spherical: Its poles are noticeably flattened. Jupiter looks like a big, colorfully striped beach ball that’s squashed down as if some invisible child were sitting on it. Spinning that fast, Jupiter’s deep, deep atmosphere is swirled into bands and ribbons of multihued clouds: pale yellow, saffron orange, white, tawny yellow-brown, dark brown, bluish, pink and red. Titanic winds push the clouds across the face of Jupiter at hundreds of kilometers per hour.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ben Bova, Jupiter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">They were in orbit around the planet now, and its giant curving bulk loomed so huge that he could see nothing else, nothing but the bands and swirls of clouds that raced fiercely across Jupiter's face. The clouds shifted and flowed before his eyes, spun into eddies the size of Asia, moved and throbbed and pulsed like living creatures. Lightning flashed down there, sudden explosions of light that flickered back and forth across the clouds, like signalling lamps.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ben Bova, Jupiter</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The vast spread </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of darkness </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">That speaks of mystery </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The darkness that reveals </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The beauty that lies beneath </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the form of glittering </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stars, a countless beauty </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">That seemed to conceal </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A million stories </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">That can make the mankind </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Take a new look at life </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And the majestic moon </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">That silently looks at mankind </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wondering how its serenity </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Was disturbed by the little steps </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of a man from the beautiful earth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yet softly smiling back </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And let the world sleep </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In its magical glow </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A glow that soothes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The world’s senses </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And forget the pain of reality</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Chandrasekar Koneru</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For many planet hunters, though, the ultimate goal is still greater (or actually, smaller) prey: terrestrial planets, like Earth, circling a star like the Sun. Astronomers already know that three such planets orbit at least one pulsar. But planet hunters will not rest until they are in sight of a small blue world, warm and wet, in whose azure skies and upon whose wind-whipped oceans shines a bright yellow star like our own.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ken Croswell</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Giordana Bruno</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We live in a changing universe, and few things are changing faster than our conception of it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Timothy Ferris</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lost in the milky way, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Smile at the empty sky </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And wait for the moment </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">When a million chances may all collide.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- The Lightning Seeds</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael O'Muircheartaigh</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the Moon that pulls the tides, and the Moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the Moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist.... When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- D.H. Lawrence</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Space is to place as eternity is to time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Joseph Joubert</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do all the stars have systems of planets?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Anakin Skywalker</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Travels in Alaska by John Muir</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Space is the breath of art.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Frank Lloyd Wright</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Galileo Galilei</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline that deals with the universe's divine revolutions, the stars' motions, sizes, distances, risings and settings . . . for what is more beautiful than heaven?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Nicolaus Copernicus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the Rockies, and nowhere else can you realize so fully the majesty of our Earth and be so awed at the thought that it's only one of untold thousands of planets.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Gus Grissom</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Teach me your mood, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">O patient stars. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Who climb each night, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">the ancient sky. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">leaving on space no shade, no scars, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">no trace of age, no fear to die.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ralph Waldo Emerson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry Van Dyke</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Indian Proverb</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes, beholds his hereditary skies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ovid</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When you are risen on the eastern horizon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">You have filled every land with your beauty…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Akhaton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Plato</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion…. Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Arthur C. Clarke</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Beyond lonely Pluto, dark and shadowless, lies the glittering realm of interstellar space, the silent ocean that rolls on and on, past stars and galaxies alike, to the ends of the Universe. What do men know of this vast infinity, this shoreless ocean? Is it hostile or friendly–or merely indifferent?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- James Strong</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I believe a blade of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Walt Whitman</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Isaac Newton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The wonderful arrangement and harmony of the cosmos would only originate in the plan of an almighty omniscient being. This is and remains my greatest comprehension.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Isaac Newton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English (up to fifty words used in correct context) no human being has been reported to have learned Dolphinese. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are one species.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are starstuff.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books - might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity and consumerism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. 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.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">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.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. 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. 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.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our posturing, 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.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">What a splendid perspective contact with a profoundly different civilization might provide! In a cosmic setting vast and old beyond ordinary human understanding we are a little lonely, and we ponder the ultimate significance, if any, of our tiny but exquisite blue planet, the Earth… In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> - Carl Sagan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Johannes Kepler</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are like the inhabitants of an isolated valley in New Guinea who communicate with societies in neighboring valleys (quite different societies, I might add) by runner and by drum. When asked how a very advanced society will communicate, they might guess by an extremely rapid runner or by an improbably large drum. They might not guess a technology beyond their ken. And yet, all the while, a vast international cable and radio traffic passes over them, around them, and through them... We will listen for the interstellar drums, but we will miss the interstellar cables. We are likely to receive our first messages from the drummers of the neighboring galactic valleys - from civilizations only somewhat in our future. The civilizations vastly more advanced than we, will be, for a long time, remote both in distance and in accessibility. At a future time of vigorous interstellar radio traffic, the very advanced civilizations may be, for us, still insubstantial legends.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">...the scientific cast of mind examines the world critically, as if many alternative worlds might exist, as if other things might be here which are not. Then we are forced to ask why what we see is present and not something else. Why are the Sun and moon and the planets spheres? Why not pyramids, or cubes, or dodecahedra? Why not irregular, jumbly shapes? Why so symmetrical, worlds? If you spend any time spinning hypotheses, checking to see whether they make sense, whether they conform to what else we know. Thinking of tests you can pose to substantiate or deflate hypotheses, you will find yourself doing science.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors and your eye gazes only to earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Dante Alighieri</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn’t only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It’s the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space and wonder, just as we do.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Frank Drake</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Stephen Hawking</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Arthur Eddington </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The universe is not only queerer than we imagine, but it is queerer than we can imagine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- J.B.S. Haldane</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ever since celestial mechanics in the skillful hands of Leverrier and Adams led to the world-amazed discovery of Neptune, a belief has existed begotten of that success that still other planets lay beyond, only waiting to be found.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Percival Lowell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Robert Hunter “Terrapin Station”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breathe in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Joy Harjo “Secrets from the Centre of the World”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Balfour Stewart</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Bill Watterson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Woody Allen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Douglas Adams</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Douglas Adams</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A star shines on the hour of our meeting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Elvish greeting, "The Lord of the Rings"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story "Nightfall," about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove men mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Roger Ebert</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Telescopes are in some ways like time machines. They reveal galaxies so far away that their light has taken billions of years to reach us. We in astronomy have an advantage in studying the universe, in that we can actually see the past. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We owe our existence to stars, because they make the atoms of which we are formed. So if you are romantic you can say we are literally starstuff. If you're less romantic you can say we're the nuclear waste from the fuel that makes stars shine. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We've made so many advances in our understanding. A few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our Earth, and the layout of the continents. We are now just learning the dimensions and ingredients of our entire cosmos, and can at last make some sense of our cosmic habitat. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Sir Martin Rees</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the most impressive discoveries was the origin of the energy of the stars, that makes them continue to burn. One of the men who discovered this was out with his girl friend the night after he realized that nuclear reactions must be going on in the stars in order to make them shine. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">She said "Look at how pretty the stars shine!" </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">He said, "Yes, and right now I am the only man in the world who knows why they shine." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">She merely laughed at him. She was not impressed with being out with the only man who, at that moment, knew why stars shine. Well, it is sad to be alone, but that is the way it is in this world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Richard Feynman</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity's role in nature. One thing we've learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Sir Martin Rees</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the moonlight </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">While drinking homemade wine </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">My sorrow hung heavy </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And my heart felt like lead. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The moon was golden yellow </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The night soft and mellow. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">There was a smell of jasmine </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">All around. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And I felt the weight of the world </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Upon my shoulders. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I looked at the twinkling stars in the sky </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So far and wide </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here’s to you </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I lifted my wine </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And my eyes looked upon the brilliance </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of the moon and stars </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">From afar...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Rasma Raisters</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Exits sun; enters moon. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This moon is never alone. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stars are seen all around. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">These twinklers do not make a sound. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The tiny ones shine from their place. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mother moon watches with a smiling face. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Its light is soothing to the eyes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Night’s darkness hides its face. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cool and calm is its light. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Heat and sweat are never felt. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some days, moon is not seen. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Makes kids wonder, where had it been? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Partial eclipse shades the moon. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In summers it does not arrive soon. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Beautiful is this milky ball. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is the love of one and all. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Srimathi Raman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">What a type of happy family is the family of the Sun! With what order, with what harmony, with what blessed peace, do his children the planets move around him, shining with light which they drink in from their parent's in at once upon him and on one another!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- N.P. Willis</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Frederick L. Knowles</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Rachel Carson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Llewelyn Powys</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Victor Hugo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Marcus Tullius Cicero</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From our home on Earth, we look out into the distances and strive to imagine the sort of world into which we were born. With increasing distance our knowledge fades until at the last dim horizon we search among ghostly errors for landmarks scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge is older than history. It is not satisfied and it will not be suppressed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Edwin P. Hubble</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It has always irked me as improper that there are still so many people for whom the sky is no more than a mass of random points of light. I do not see why we should recognize a house, a tree, or a flower here below and not, for example, the red Arcturus up there in the heavens as it hangs from its constellation Bootes, like a basket hanging from a balloon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- M.C. Escher</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at all; their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry David Thoreau</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Plato</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my way from one place to another. I have changed lives. My life now is as black and white as night and day; a life of fierce struggle under the sun, and peaceful reflection under the night sky. I feel as though I am floating on a raft far, far away from any world I ever knew.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ted Simon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Continuous as the stars that shine</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And twinkle on the milky way,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">They stretch'd in never-ending line</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Along the margin of a bay:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ten thousand saw I at a glance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- William Wordsworth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Victor Hugo</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. By day, space is one with the earth and with man - it is his sun that is shining, his clouds that are floating past; at night, space is his no more. When the great earth, abandoning day, rolls up the deeps of the heavens and the universe, a new door opens for the human spirit, and there are few so clownish that some awareness of the mystery of being does not touch them as they gaze. For a moment of night we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time. Fugitive though the instant be, the spirit of man is, during it, ennobled by a genuine moment of emotional dignity, and poetry makes its own both the human spirit and experience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry Beston</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- George Santayana</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Saint Albertus Magnus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Christiaan Huygens</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now when we think that each of these stars is probably the centre of a solar system grander than our own, we cannot seriously take ourselves to be the only minds in it all.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Percival Lowell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Two lights for guidance. The first, our little glowing atom of community, with all that it signifies. The second, the cold light of the stars, symbol of the hypercosmical reality, with its crystal ecstasy. Strange that in this light, in which even the dearest love is frostily asserted, and even the possible defeat of our half-waking world is contemplated without remission of praise, the human crisis does not lose but gains significance. Strange, that it seems more, not less, urgent to play some part in this struggle, this brief effort of animalcules striving to win for their race some increase of lucidity before the ultimate darkness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Olaf Stapledon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Muir</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Douglas Adams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Lennon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Arthur C. Clarke</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The universe is a philosophical abyss.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Kedar Joshi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Kedar Joshi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- C.S. Lewis</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Dean Koontz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, from what we now know about the cosmos, to think that all this was created for just one species among the tens of millions of species who live on one planet circling one of a couple of hundred billion stars that are located in one galaxy among hundreds of billions of galaxies, all of which are in one universe among perhaps an infinite number of universes all nestled within a grand cosmic multiverse, is provincially insular and anthropocentrically blinkered. Which is more likely? That the universe was designed just for us, or that we see the universe as having been designed just for us?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Shermer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Are you aware that humanity is just a blip? Not even a blip. Just a fraction of a fraction of what the universe has been and will become? Talk about perspective. I figure I can't feel so entirely stupid about saying what I said because, first of all, it's true. And second of all, there will be no remnant of me or my stupidity. No fossil or geographical shift that can document, really, even the most important historical human beings, let alone my paltry admissions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Meg Mullins</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Rachel Carson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The actuality of us being cognizant and accepting of the fact we are but a speck of sand in a universe sized desert, whose existence is irrelevant to any facet of universal function is a hard pill to swallow. Knowing the world will go on for another billion years after death and you will have no recollection of anything, just as you have no recollection of the billion years before your birth is a mind-boggling intuition.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Hewitt E. Moore</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nothing can be inside an edgeless universe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">-Toba Beta</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Stephen W. Hawking</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pumbaa: “Timon, ever wonder what those sparkly dots are up there?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Timon: “Pumbaa, I don’t wonder; I know.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pumbaa: “Oh. What are they?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Timon: “They’re fireflies that got stuck up in that bluish-black thing”.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pumbaa: “Oh, gee. I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Timon: “Pumbaa, with you, everything’s gas.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- The Lion King</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">For all these years you were merely</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A smear of light through our telescopes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the clearest, coldest night; a hint</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of a glint, just a few pixels wide</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">On even your most perfectly-framed portraits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">But now, now we see you!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Swimming out of the dark - a great</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stone shark, your star-tanned skin pitted</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And pocked, scarred after eons of drifting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Silently through the endless ocean of space.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here on Earth our faces lit up as we saw</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">You clearly for the first time; eyes wide</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">With wonder we traced the strangely familiar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Grooves raked across your sides, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wondering if Rosetta had doubled back to Mars</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And raced past Phobos by mistake –</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then you were gone, falling back into the black,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Not to be seen by human eyes again for a thousand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Moons or more. But we know you now,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We know you; you’ll never be just a speck of light again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Stuart Atkinson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Douglas Adams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In a nutshell, the universe is 4% visible, 23% undetectable and 73% unimaginable. Welcome to the cosmos, full of mass you can measure but not manhandle, driven by a force you can infer but not explain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Tim Radford</span>Koh Xuan Yanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13767635554667886016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10003937.post-39632579129281105182015-12-23T06:00:00.000+08:002015-12-28T10:01:27.049+08:00Space Exploration<span style="font-family: inherit;">The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course we can see the entire circumference even though part of it is in complete shadow and part of it is in earthshine. It's a view worth the price of the trip.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Neil Armstrong</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Houston, Apollo 11… I've got the world in my window.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Collins</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This beast is best felt. Shake, rattle, and roll. We are thrown left and right against our straps in spasmodic little jerks. It is steering like crazy, like a nervous lady driving a wide car down a narrow alley, and I just hope it knows where it's going, because for the first ten seconds we are perilously close to that umbilical tower.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Collins</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The vehicle explodes, literally explodes, off the pad. The simulator shakes you a little bit, but the actual liftoff shakes your entire body and soul.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Mike McCulley</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Contact light.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., man's first words after landing on the Moon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Houston, Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Neil Armstrong</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Charlie Duke</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Neil A. Armstrong</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Charlie Duke</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Neil Armstrong</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Neil and Buzz, I am talking to you by telephone from the Oval Office at the White House, and this certainly has to be the most historic telephone call ever made. Because of what you have done, the heavens have become a part of man's world. As you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquility, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to Earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President Richard M. Nixon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The United States this week will commit its national pride, eight years of work and $24 billion of its fortune to showing the world it can still fulfill a dream. It will send three young men on a human adventure of mythological proportions with the whole of the civilized world invited to watch - for better or worse.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Rudy Abramson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Arthur C. Clarke</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a... crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks ... and it required... flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Neil Armstrong</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Charlie Duke</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape - angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock. The colors - well, there doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all; however, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders [are] going to have some interesting colors to them. Over.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's not quite as exhilarating a feeling as orbiting the earth, but it's close. In addition, it has an exotic, bizarre quality due entirely to the nature of the surface below. The earth from orbit is a delight - offering visual variety and an emotional feeling of belonging "down there." Not so with this withered, sun-seared peach pit out of my window. There is no comfort to it; it is too stark and barren; its invitation is monotonous and meant for geologists only.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Collins</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And don't forget one in the command module.... And thanks for putting me on relay, Houston. I was missing all the action.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Collins</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are gliding across the world in total silence, with absolute smoothness; a motion of stately grace which makes me feel godlike as I stand erect in my sideways chariot, cruising the night sky.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Collins</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President Richard M. Nixon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- George Steiner</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This has been far more than three men on a mission to the Moon; more still than the efforts of a government and industry team; more, even, than the efforts of one nation. We feel this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here Men From Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon The Moon July 1969 A.D. We Came In Peace For All Mankind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Plaque left on the Moon</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering planet. As earthmen, we may have taken another step into adulthood. We can see our planet earth with detachment, with tenderness, with some shame and pity, but at last also with love.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Anne Morrow Lindbergh</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Charles Duke</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that man set foot on the Moon but that they set eye on the earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Norman Cousins</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me - a small disk, 240,000 miles away… Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence don't show from that distance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Frank Borman</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If somebody'd said before the flight, "Are you going to get carried away looking at the earth from the moon?" I would have say, "No, no way." But yet when I first looked back at the earth, standing on the moon, I cried.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Alan Shepard</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The world itself looks cleaner and so much more beautiful. Maybe we can make it that way - the way God intended it to be - by giving everybody that new perspective from out in space.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Roger B Chaffee</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For forty-nine months between 1968 and 1972, two dozen Americans had the great good fortune to briefly visit the Moon. Half of us became the first emissaries from Earth to tread its dusty surface. We who did so were privileged to represent the hopes and dreams of all humanity. For mankind it was a giant leap for a species that evolved from the Stone Age to create sophisticated rockets and spacecraft that made a Moon landing possible. For one crowning moment, we were creatures of the cosmic ocean, an epoch that a thousand years hence may be seen as the signature of our century.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Lunar landing of the astronauts is more than a step in history; it is a step in evolution.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- 'New York Times' editorial</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Earth bound history has ended. Universal history has begun.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Earl Hubbard</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For when I look at the moon I do not see a hostile, empty world. I see the radiant body where man has taken his first steps into a frontier that will never end.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- David R. Scott</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Alan Bean, Apollo 12</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. It wasn't a miracle, we just decided to go. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jim Lovell</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonard Nimoy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have sat by night beside a cold lake</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">But the moon on this cloud sea is not human,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And here is no shore, no intimacy,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Only the start of space, the road to suns.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Trans Canada by F.R. Scott</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Dune by Frank Herbert</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is in a real sense the capstone of the initial missions to explore the planets. Pluto, its moons and this part of the solar system are such mysteries that New Horizons will rewrite all of the textbooks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Alan Stern</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It'll be the fastest spacecraft ever to Jupiter… 13 months after launch. We pass the Moon in just nine hours.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Alan Stern</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share... I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, 'Because it is there.' Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade... not because they are easy but because they are hard. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I think a future flight should include a poet, a priest and a philosopher… we might get a much better idea of what we saw.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Collins</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We have taken to the Moon the wealth of this nation,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">the vision of its political leaders,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">the intelligence of its scientists,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">the dedication of its engineers,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">the careful craftsmanship of its workers,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and the enthusiastic support of its people.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We have brought back rocks, and I think it is a fair trade . . .</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Man has always gone where he has been able to go. It's that simple.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">He will continue pushing back his frontier,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">no matter how far it may carry him from his homeland.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Collins</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Buzz Aldrin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- David M. Brown</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As much as we've enjoyed it up here, we're also starting to look forward to seeing all the people back on Earth that we miss and love so much. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- David M. Brown </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- David M. Brown </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was interested in flying beginning at age 7, when a close family friend took me in his little airplane. And I remember looking at the wheel of the airplane as we rolled down the runway, because I wanted to remember the exact moment that I first went flying... the other thing growing up is that I was always interested in science. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- David M. Brown </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- David M. Brown</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- David M. Brown</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Wernher von Braun</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Wernher von Braun </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Wernher von Braun</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Wernher von Braun</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- William Shatner</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Space is so close: It took only eight minutes to get there and twenty to get back. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Wubbo Ockels</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If I’d been born in space, I would desire to visit the beautiful Earth more than to visit space. It’s a wonderful planet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- David Brown</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The colors are stunning. In a single view, I see - looking out at the edge of the earth: red at the horizon line, blending to orange and yellow, followed by a thin white line, then light blue, gradually turning to dark blue and various gradually darker shades of gray, then black and a million stars above. It’s breathtaking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Willie McCool</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Feeling weightless… it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable . . . and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you've been born again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Wally Schirra</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We were flying over America and suddenly I saw snow, the first snow we ever saw from orbit. I have never visited America, but I imagined that the arrival of autumn and winter is the same there as in other places, and the process of getting ready for them is the same. And then it struck me that we are all children of our Earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Aleksandr Aleksandrov</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As I looked down, I saw a large river meandering slowly along for miles, passing from one country to another without stopping. I also saw huge forests, extending along several borders. And I watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. Two words leaped to mind as I looked down on all this: commonality and interdependence. We are one world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John-David Bartoe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Once the hatch was opened, I turned the lock handle and bright rays of sunlight burst through it. I opened the hatch and dust from the station flew in like little sparklets, looking like tiny snowflakes on a frosty day. Space, like a giant vacuum cleaner, began to suck everything out. Flying out together with the dust were some little washers and nuts that dad got stuck somewhere; a pencil flew by.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">My first impression when I opened the hatch was of a huge Earth and of the sense of unreality concerning everything that was going on. Space is very beautiful. There was the dark velvet of the sky, the blue halo of the Earth and fast-moving lakes, rivers, fields and clouds clusters. It was dead silence all around, nothing whatever to indicate the velocity of the flight… no wind whistling in your ears, no pressure on you. The panorama was very serene and majestic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Valentin Lebedev</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The experience was more fulfilling than I could have ever imagined. I have a newfound sense of wonder seeing the Earth and stars from such an incredible perspective. Certainly, through my training I was prepared for the technical aspects, but I had no idea that I would be flooded with such amazement and joy after seeing my first sunrise and sunset from space.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Greg Olsen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In outer space you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that, you son of a bitch.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Edgar Mitchell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I raised the visor on my helmet cover and looked out to try to identify constellations. As I looked out into space, I was overwhelmed by the darkness. I felt the flesh crawl on my back and the hair rise on my neck.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- William Pogue</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only in Israel, have to keep it clean and good.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Israeli Air Force Col. Ilan Ramon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Sun truly 'comes up like thunder,' and it sets just as fast. Each sunrise and sunset lasts only a few seconds. But in that time you see at least eight different bands of color come and go, from a brilliant red to the brightest and deepest blue. And you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. No sunrise or sunset is ever the same.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Joseph Allen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Willie McCool</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We entered into shadow. Contact with Moscow was gone. Japan floated by beneath us and I could clearly see its cities ablaze with lights. We left Japan behind to face the dark emptiness of the Pacific Ocean. No moon. Only stars, bright and far away. I gripped the handle like a man hanging onto a streetcar. Very slowly, agonizingly, half an hour passed, and with that, dawn on Earth. First, a slim greenish-blue line on the farthest horizon turning within a couple of minutes into a rainbow that hugged the Earth and in turn exploded into a golden sun. You're out of your mind, I told myself, hanging onto a ship in space, and to your life, and getting ready to admire a sunrise. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Valeri Ryumin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Firefly meteorites blazed against a dark background, and sometimes the lightning was frighteningly brilliant. Like a boy, I gazed open-mouthed at the fireworks, and suddenly, before my eyes, something magical occurred. A greenish radiance poured from Earth directly up to the station, a radiance resembling gigantic phosphorescent organ pipes, whose ends were glowing crimson, and overlapped by waves of swirling green mist.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">'Consider yourself very lucky, Vladimir,' I said to myself, 'to have watched the northern lights.' </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Vladimir Remek</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I shuddered when I saw a crimson flame through the porthole instead of the usual starry sky at the night horizon of the planet. Vast pillars of light were bursting into the sky, melting into it, and flooding over with all the colors of the rainbow. An area of red luminescence merged smoothly into the black of the cosmos. The intense and dynamic changes in the colors and forms of the pillars and garlands made me think of visual music. Finally, we saw that we had entered directly into the aurora borealis.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Aleksandr Ivanchenkov</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man, has to make a man appreciate the creation of God and the love of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- James B. Irwin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the way back [from the moon] we had an EVA [extra-vehicular activity, or spacewalk] I had a chance to look around while I was outside and Earth was off to the right, 180,000 miles away, a little thin sliver of blue and white like a new moon surrounded by this blackness of space. Back over my left shoulder was almost a full moon. I didn't feel like I was a participant. It was like sitting in the last row of the balcony, looking down at all of that play going on down there. I had that insignificant feeling of the immensity of this, God's creation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Charles Duke</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Several days after looking at the Earth a childish thought occurred to me - that we the cosmonauts are being deceived. If we are the first ones in space, then who was it who made the globe correctly? Then this thought was replaced by pride in the human capacity to see with our mind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Igor Volk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">You see layers as you look down. You see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's wake in the Indian Ocean and brush fires in Africa and a lightning storm walking its way across Australia. You see the reds and the pinks of the Australian desert, and it's just like a stereoscopic view of all nature, except you're a hundred ninety miles up. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Joseph Allen</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Myriad small ponds and streams would reflect the full glare of the sun for one or two seconds, then fade away as a new set of water surfaces came into the reflecting position. The effect was as if the land were covered with sparkling jewels.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Karl Henize</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Pacific. You don't comprehend it by looking at a globe, but when you're traveling at four miles a second and it still takes you twenty-five minutes to cross it, you know it’s big.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Paul Weitz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Although the ocean's surface seems at first to be completely homogeneous, after half a month we began to differentiate various seas and even different parts of oceans by their characteristic shades. We were astonished to discover that, during an flight, you have to learn anew not only to look, but also to see. At first the finest nuances of color elude you, but gradually your vision sharpens and your color perception becomes richer, and the planet spreads out before you with all its indescribable beauty. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Wadimir Lyakhov</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We were able to see the plankton blooms resulting from the upwelling off the coast of Chile. The plankton itself extended along the coastline and had some long tenuous arms reaching out to sea. The arms or lines of plankton were pushed around in a random direction, fairly well-defined yet somewhat weak in color, in contrast with the dark blue ocean. The fishing ought to be good down there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Edward Gibson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As we were flying over the Mozambique Channel, which separates the island of Madagascar from the continent of Africa, we could clearly see the transverse sand bars at its bottom. It was just like a brook one waded in childhood. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Lev Demin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we were aware of only one Earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Sultan Bin Salman al-Suad</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We had various kinds of tape-recorded concerts and popular music. But by the end of the flight what we listened to most was Russian folk songs. We also had recordings of nature sounds: thunder, rain, the singing of birds. We switched them on most frequently of all, and we never grew tired of them. It was as if they returned us to Earth. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Anatoli Berezovoy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A strange feeling of complete, almost solemn contentment suddenly overcame me when the descent module landed, rocked, and stilled. The weather was foul, but I smelled Earth, unspeakably sweet and intoxicating. And wind. Now utterly delightful; wind after long days in space. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Andriyan Nicolayev</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth . . . home.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Edgar Mitchell</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Edgar Mitchell</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">My first view - a panorama of brilliant deep blue ocean, shot with shades of green and gray and white - was of atolls and clouds. Close to the window I could see that this Pacific scene in motion was rimmed by the great curved limb of the Earth. It had a thin halo of blue held close, and beyond, black space. I held my breath, but something was missing - I felt strangely unfulfilled. Here was a tremendous visual spectacle, but viewed in silence. There was no grand musical accompaniment; no triumphant, inspired sonata or symphony. Each one of us must write the music of this sphere for ourselves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Charles Walker</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Donald Williams</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth... The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots... When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earth's light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquoise, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Yuri Gagarin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Yuri Gagarin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty - but no welcome. Below was a welcoming planet. There, contained in the thin, moving, incredibly fragile shell of the biosphere is everything that is dear to you, all the human drama and comedy. That's where life is; that's were all the good stuff is.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Loren Acton</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Aleksei Leonov</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Come, my friends,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">'Tis not too late to seek a newer world…</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of all the western stars, until I die.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Alfred Lord Tennyson<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- William Burroughs</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Glenn</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance of several tens of kilometers, to land on its satellite or even on its surface, what can be more fantastic? From the moment of using rocket devices a new great era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated by further exploration will inspire our young people to study math, and science, and engineering and create a new generation of innovators and pioneers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President George W. Bush</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mars is there, waiting to be reached.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Buzz Aldrin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We must somehow keep the dreams of space exploration alive, for in the long run they will prove to be of far more importance to the human race than the attainment of material benefits. Like Darwin, we have set sail upon an ocean: the cosmic sea of the Universe. There can be no turning back. To do so could well prove to be a guarantee of extinction. When a nation, or a race or a planet turns its back on the future, to concentrate on the present, it cannot see what lies ahead. It can neither plan nor prepare for the future, and thus discards the vital opportunity for determining its evolutionary heritage and perhaps its survival.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- James C. Fletcher</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its shimmering red presence in the clear night sky. It is like a glowing ember in a field of ethereal lights, projecting energy and promise. It inspires visions of an approachable world. The mind vaults to thoughts of what might have been (if Mars were a litter closer to the warming Sun) and of what could be (if humans were one day to plant colonies there). Mysterious Mars, alluring Mars, fourth planet from the Sun: so far away and yet, on a cosmic scale, so very near.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Noble Wilford</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It’s time to strike out anew. Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years. The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won’t be humans anymore. I’ve seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology. The next step is in space. It’s inevitable.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Arthur C. Clarke</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The earth is simply too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Arthur C. Clarke</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If God wanted man to become a space faring species, He would have given man a moon. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Krafft Ehricke</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">… to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Gene Roddenberry</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point of its planetary habitat combined with a certain level of technological ability... I think it is a built-in gene-directed drive for the spreading of the species and its continuation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Donald A. Wollheim</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Petronius</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">you have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">my eager craft through footless halls of air. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">where never lark, or even eagle flew </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">and, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">the high untrespassed sanctity of space, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">put out my hand, and touched the face of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Gillespie Magee Jr.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the moon and Jupiter]... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Johannes Kepler</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Earth is the cradle of humankind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mankind will not remain on Earth forever, but in its quest for light and space will at first timidly penetrate beyond the confines of the atmosphere, and later will conquer for itself all the space near the Sun. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Pope Pius XII</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- H. G. Wells</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of all investments into the future, the conquest of space demands the greatest efforts and the longest-term commitment… but it also offers the greatest reward: none less than a universe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Daniel Christlein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Human interest in exploring the heavens goes back centuries. This is what human nature is all about.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Dennis Tito</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">but not quite touching; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Earth: a distant memory seen in an instant of repose, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">crescent shaped, ethereal, beautiful, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I wonder which part is home, but I know it doesn't matter . . . </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">the bond is there in my mind and memory; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Earth: a small, bubbly balloon hanging delicately </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">in the nothingness of space.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Alfred M. Worden</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Roberta Bondar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds… to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ellison S. Onizuka</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The choice is: the Universe…or nothing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- H. G. Wells</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I searched along the changing edge </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where, sky-pierced now the cloud had broken. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I saw no bird, no blade of wing, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">No song was spoken. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I stood, my eyes turned upward still </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And drank the air and breathed the light. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then, like a hawk upon the wind, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I climbed the sky, I made the flight. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Elizabeth J. Buchtenkirk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Isaac Asimov </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">If seeds in the black Earth can turn into such beautiful roses what might not the heart of man become in its long journey towards the stars?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- G. K. Chesterton</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jimi Hendrix “Third Stone from the Sun”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Poised for flight,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wings spread bright,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Spring from night into the Sun.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Robert Hunter “Help on the Way”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Les Brown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ransom K. Ferm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ptolemy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">But does Man have any "right" to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability, against all competition. Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics, you name it, is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what man is, not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be. The Universe will let us know - later - whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Robert A. Heinlein, "Starship Troopers"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">When the history of our galaxy is written, and for all any of us know it may already have been, if Earth gets mentioned at all it won't be because its inhabitants visited their own moon. That first step, like a newborn's cry, would be automatically assumed. What would be worth recording is what kind of civilization we earthlings created and whether or not we ventured out to other parts of the galaxy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Collins</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We should have positive expectations of what is in the universe, not fears and dreads. We are made with the realization that we're not Earthbound, and that our acceptance of the universe offers us room to explore and extend outward. It's like being in a dark room and imagining all sorts of terrors. But when we turn on the light – technology - suddenly it's just a room where we can stretch out and explore. If the resources here on Earth are limited, they are not limited in the universe. We are not constrained by the limitations of our planet. As children have to leave the security of family and home life to insure growth into mature adults, so also must humankind leave the security and familiarity of Earth to reach maturity and obtain the highest attainment possible for the human race.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Nichelle Nichols</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">For the environmentalists, The Space Option is the ultimate environmental solution. For the Cornucopians, it is the technological fix that they are relying on. For the hard core space community, the obvious by-product would be the eventual exploration and settlement of the solar system. For most of humanity however, the ultimate benefit is having a realistic hope in a future with possibilities.... If our species does not soon embrace this unique opportunity with sufficient commitment, it may miss its one and only chance to do so. Humanity could soon be overwhelmed by one or more of the many challenges it now faces. The window of opportunity is closing as fast as the population is increasing. Our future will be either a Space Age or a Stone Age.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Arthur Woods and Marco Bernasconi</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Men go into space to see whether it is the kind of place where other men, and their families and their children, can eventually follow them. A disturbingly high proportion of the intelligent young are discontented because they find the life before them intolerably confining. The moon offers a new frontier. It is as simple and splendid as that.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Editorial on the moon landing, The Economist, 1969</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is not failure but success that is forcing man off this earth. It is not sickness but the triumph of health... Our capacity to survive has expanded beyond the capacity of Earth to support us. The pains we are feeling are growing pains. We can solve growth problems in direct proportion to our capacity to find new worlds... If man stays on Earth, his extinction is sure even if he lasts till the sun expands and destroys him... It is no longer reasonable to assume that the meaning of life lies on this earth alone. If Earth is all there is for man, we are reaching the foreseeable end of man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Earl Hubbard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The desire to reach for the sky runs deep in our human psyche.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Cesar Pelli</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Hermann Oberth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The point to remember is that a giant leap into space can be a giant leap toward peace down below.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Willy Ley</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the other planets, not only for economic exploitation, but also as possible homes for man... The goal for the solar system would seem to be that it should become an interplanetary community of very diverse worlds... each contributing to the common experience its characteristic view of the universe. Through the pooling of this wealth of experience, through this "commonwealth of worlds," new levels of mental and spiritual development should become possible, levels at present quite inconceivable to man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Olaf Stapledon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A time will come when science will transform [our bodies] by means which we cannot conjecture... And then, the earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet, and sun from sun. The earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all quarters of the universe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Winwood Reade</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Every civilization [in the universe] must go through this [a nuclear crisis]. Those that don't make it destroy themselves. Those that do make it end up cavorting all over the universe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ted Taylor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Andre Gide</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just as lonely, as distant as a star on a June night if you go far enough out. And still, my friend, if you go far enough out you are only at the beginning of yourself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Rolf Jacobsen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I hear beyond the range of sound,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I see beyond the range of sight,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">New earths and skies and seas around,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And in my day the sun doth pale his light.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry David Thoreau</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from Terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known… this is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Vladimir Nabokov</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Eugene Cernan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Russell Schweickart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore... We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Eileen Collins</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Glenn Jr.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself - but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Paul Allen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyone who sits on top of the largest hydrogen-oxygen fueled system in the world; knowing they're going to light the bottom, and doesn't get a little worried, does not fully understand the situation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Young</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We fooled ourselves into thinking this thing wouldn't crash. When I was in astronaut training I asked, 'what is the likelihood of another accident?' The answer I got was: one in 10,000, with an asterisk. The asterisk meant, 'we don't know.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Bryan O'Connor</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Edwin Hubble</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">For all these years you were merely</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A smear of light through our telescopes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the clearest, coldest night; a hint</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of a glint, just a few pixels wide</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">On even your most perfectly-framed portraits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">But now, now we see you!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Swimming out of the dark - a great</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stone shark, your star-tanned skin pitted</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And pocked, scarred after aeons of drifting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Silently through the endless ocean of space.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here on Earth our faces lit up as we saw</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">You clearly for the first time; eyes wide</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">With wonder we traced the strangely familiar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Grooves raked across your sides, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wondering if Rosetta had doubled back to Mars</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And raced past Phobos by mistake -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then you were gone, falling back into the black,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Not to be seen by human eyes again for a thousand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue Moons or more. But we know you now,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We know you; you’ll never be just a speck of light again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Stuart Atkinsonpace</span>Koh Xuan Yanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13767635554667886016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10003937.post-23961594670795501102015-12-22T06:00:00.000+08:002015-12-28T10:02:18.025+08:00Life<span style="font-family: inherit;">The beginning of morality is to see the world as it is.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Kahlil Gibran</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s the lies that undo us. It’s the lies we think we need to survive. When was the last time you told the truth?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carrie, Homeland</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Confucius once said: “our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do”. Scholars believe he was referring to roller coasters.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Anonymous</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I would request that my body in death be buried, not cremated so that the energy content contained within in gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it just as I’ve dined upon flora and fauna throughout my life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Neil deGrasse Tyson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ask not what your country can do for you; but what you can do for your country.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the great enterprises and ideals of American society.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some people see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President John F. Kennedy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Life well spent is long.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">To go places and do things that have never been done before - that's what living is all about.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Collins</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's human nature to stretch, to go, to see, to understand. Exploration is not a choice, really; it's an imperative.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Collins</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Neil Armstrong</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Wernher von Braun </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is difficult to say what is impossible. The dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Robert H. Goddard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Charles F. Kettering</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Freeman Dyson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of its husk, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Ruskin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Taking a new step... is what people fear most. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Dostoyevski</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Freedom lies in being bold. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Robert Frost</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous cooperation of a free people. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- President Woodrow Wilson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I had the ambition to not only go farther than man had gone before, but to go as far as it was possible to go. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Captain Cook</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Sagan</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love is a better teacher than duty. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is the source of all true art and science.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">One should guard against inculcating a young man {or woman} with the idea that success is the aim of life, for a successful man normally receives from his peers an incomparably greater portion than the services he has been able to render them deserve. The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. The most important motive for study at school, at the university, and in life is the pleasure of working and thereby obtaining results which will serve the community. The most important task for our educators is to awaken and encourage these psychological forces in a young man {or woman}. Such a basis alone can lead to the joy of possessing one of the most precious assets in the world - knowledge or artistic skill.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We all know, from what we experience with and within ourselves, that our conscious acts spring from our desires and our fears. Intuition tells us that that is true also of our fellows and of the higher animals. We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation. At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on. All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us. Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much aloke in them and in us. The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolical devices. Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions. In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts. But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Einstein</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Isaac Asimov</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Isaac Asimov</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Isaac Asimov</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Isaac Asimov</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is, infinite.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- William Blake</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You are not expected to complete the work in your lifetime. Nor must you refuse to do your unique part.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Talmud</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Robert Hunter “Scarlet Begonias”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You are dust.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Genesis</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We know where we’re going cause we know where we’re from.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Bob Marley “Exodus”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- James Hutton “Theory of the Earth”, 1785</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We’ve come a long way, we’ve come a long way and we never even left L.A.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michelle Shocked</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Philip K. Dick</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history... We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future... A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Margaret Mead</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Helen Keller </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Helen Keller </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Helen Keller </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Helen Keller </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Helen Keller </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One cannot consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Helen Keller</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Helen Keller</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Helen Keller</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Helen Keller</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Helen Keller</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In dreams begins responsibility. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- William Butler Yeats</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- T.E. Lawrence </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I had a dream, and it landed right here in my hand.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Robert R. Toth</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Phantom F. Harlock </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes dreams alter the course of an entire life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Judith Duerk </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Think impossible and dreams get discarded, projects get abandoned, and hope for wellness is torpedoed. But let someone yell the words it’s possible, and resources we hadn't been aware of come rushing in to assist us in our quest. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Greg Anderson </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Bill Clinton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, are the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Bette Davis </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen. But while we wait, we need to prepare symbolically a place for our hopes and dreams. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Sarah Ban Breathnach </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Anonymous</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Woodrow Wilson </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you talk to your children, you can help them to keep their lives together. If you talk to them skillfully, you can help them to build future dreams. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jim Rohn </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Kahill Gibran </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Belva Davis </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own...for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Linda Staten </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- James Dean </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Nicholas Evans</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Calvin and Hobbes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Kelstar's Riddle</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Dale E. Turner </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Goethe</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Eleanor Roosevelt</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Joseph Epstein </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let your dream devour your life not your life devour your dream. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Anonymous</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Zadok Rabinwitz </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Mark Twain</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Pamela Vaull Starr </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dreams are the touchstone of our character. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry David Thoreau </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Those who lose dreaming are lost. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Australian Aboriginal Proverb </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In your heart, keep one still secret spot where dreams may go and be sheltered so they may thrive and grow. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Louise Driscoll </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Orison Swett Marden </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ashleigh Brilliant </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dreams are wishes cast upon stars, so catch a shining one ~ take your friend's hand~ and hold on forever. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Traci Brown </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Dr. Laura Schlesinger </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Langston Hughes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Mark Twain </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Mark Twain </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them. And every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- George W. Bush </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- George W. Bush Address to the US after hijack attacks on the US World Trade Centers and Pentagon, September 11, 2001 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Oliver Wendell Holmes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Thomas Alva Edison </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The biggest difficulty with mankind today is that our knowledge has increased so much faster than our wisdom </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Frank Whitmore </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Benjamin Disraeli </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Great things are only possible with outrageous requests. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Thea Alexander </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ralph Waldo Emerson </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To be great is to be misunderstood </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ralph Waldo Emerson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ralph Waldo Emerson </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ralph Waldo Emerson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Denis Diderot </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Eleanor Roosevelt</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on Earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jimmy Carter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Voltaire</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Most of us have had moments in childhood when we touched the divine presence. We did not think it extraordinary because it wasn't; it was just a beautiful moment filled with love. In those simple moments our hearts were alive, and we saw the poignant beauty of life vividly with wonder and appreciation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- David McArthur and Bruce McArthur</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When we react to life from the head without joining forces with the heart, it can lead us into childish, inelegant behavior that we don't respect in ourselves. If we get the head in sync with the heart first, we have the power of their teamwork working for us and we can make the changes we know we need to make.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Doc Childre and Howard Martin</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Look at life as an energy economy game. Each day, ask yourself, Are my energy expenditures (actions, reactions, thoughts, and feelings) productive or nonproductive? During the course of my day, have I accumulated more stress or more peace?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Doc Childre and Howard Martin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them - work, family, health, friends, and spirit - and you're keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls - family, health, friends, and spirit are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for balance in your life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Brian Dyson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Samuel Ullman</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">... I think the guys who are really controlling their emotions... are going to win; the guy who is controlling his emotions is going to win!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Tiger Woods</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leo Tolstoy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nothing is easy to the unwilling.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Thomas Fuller</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created-created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Schaar</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Kenneth Galbraith</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hold fast to dreams,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let them stay with you forever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Don’t let them die.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">You might fly up in the sky</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">On a silver unicorn’s back,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dreaming of the ocean,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Listening to the dolphins sing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dreams, hold on to them forever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">-Nadia Drake</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Benjamin Franklin</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Brian Tracy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Kin Hubbard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's kind of fun to do the impossible. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Walt Disney </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Grenville Kleiser </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Time only seems to matter when it's running out. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Peter Strup </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Time is a fixed income and, as with any income, the real problem facing most of us is how to live successfully within our daily allotment. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Margaret B. Johnstone </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Althsuler </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ralph Waldo Emerson </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do what you can, with what you have, where you are </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Theodore Roosevelt </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life - facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Amatt </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Benjamin Franklin </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to dark place where it leads. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Erica Jong </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All men by nature desire knowledge. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Aristotle </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The energy of the mind is the essence of life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Aristotle </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Aristotle</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hope is a waking dream. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Aristotle </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Benjamin Franklin </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Benjamin Franklin </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Frank Lloyd Wright </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He who neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead for the future </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Euripides </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Frank Tyger </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Apple Computer Advertisement</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ralph Waldo Emerson </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Arthur Koestler </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Greg Anderson </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Greg Anderson </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Imagination is the eye of the soul. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Joseph Joubert </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Brenda Peterson </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- George Van Valkenburg </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Watch your thoughts; they become words.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Watch your words; they become actions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Watch your actions; they become habits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Watch your habits; they become character.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Frank Outlaw </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Stewart E. White </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What we see depends mainly on what we look for. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Sir John Lubbock </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Robert Vallett </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Erin Majors </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success, for those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Sydney Bremer </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Robert Louis Stevenson </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love to race the best people in the world and the fastest people in the world. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Phelps</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Phelps</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.' </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Phelps</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Christopher Reeve</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Christopher Reeve</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Bill Gates</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Billy Graham</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, 'What a lovely sermon!' but 'I will do something.' </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Billy Graham</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Jordan</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- William Shakespeare</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- William Shakespeare</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am not bound to please thee with my answer. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- William Shakespeare</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Make not your thoughts your prisons.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- William Shakespeare</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ralph Ellison </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad that they have to get better. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Malcolm Forbes </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Arland Gilbert </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Robert Bresson </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Phyllis Bottome </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When you row another person across the river, you get there yourself. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Fortune Cookie </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wherever you go, go with all your heart. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Confucius </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Whoever does not try, does not learn. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jewish Saying </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wise [persons] learn by others’ mistakes, fools by their own. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry George Bohn </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry Ford </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry Ford </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One today is worth two tomorrows. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Benjamin Franklin </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Joseph B. Wirthlin </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Confucius </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Gordon B. Hinckley</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Orison Swett Marden</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Robert Collier</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Brian Tracy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Napoleon Hill </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Charles Swindoll </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Woodrow T. Wilson </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Lewis Mumford</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ayn Rand </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Anthony Robbins </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Joel A. Barker</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Your successful past will block your visions of the future. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Joel A. Barker</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You have to think big to be big.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Claude M. Bristol </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Les Brown</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You don't need an explanation for everything. Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Harry Browne</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All good things are wild and free.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry David Thoreau</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Napoleon Bonaparte</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ideas are like stars: You will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Schurz</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The man who speaks with primordial images speaks with a thousand tongues.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Carl Jung</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Aristotle</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Walt Disney</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persist when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Orison Swett Marden</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of man. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Benjamin Disraeli</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- George Bernard Show</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much…in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Theodore Roosevelt</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is weather it is positive or negative.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- W. Clement Stone</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Lou Holtz</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before our eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Terence </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imagination vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slave of the ordinary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Cecil Beaton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I think there is something more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- W. Clement Stone</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">No one keeps his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new visions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Papyrus</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your idea, but it is disaster to have no idea to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach for the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Dr. Benjamin E. Mayes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It you’re bored with life-if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things-you don’t have enough goals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Lou Holtz</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What you get by reaching your destination is not as important as what you become by reaching your destination.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Dr. Robert Anthony</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You must have short range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Charles C. Noble</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Wooden</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight in cleverness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Thomas Henry Huxley</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Dale Carnegie</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Success…seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Conrad Hilton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the failing down, but the staying down.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Mary Pickford</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jimmy Dean</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I found that I could find the energy…that I could find the determination to keep on going. I learned that your mind can amaze your body, it you just keep telling yourself, I can do it…I can do it…I can do it!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jon Erickson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It seems rather incongruous that in a society of super-sophisticated communications, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Erma Bombeck</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leo Buscaglia</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Wooden</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Intelligence is the capacity to learn. Learning is based on the acquisition of new knowledge about the environment. Memory is its retention.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Arthur Winter</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry S. Haskins</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ralph Waldo Emerson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Benjamin Franklin</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Charles Buxton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year-and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Anthony Robbins</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Strategy is better than strength.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Nigerian Proverb</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">No person was ever honored for what he received; honor has been the reward for what he gave.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Calvin Coolidge</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">When was the last time you did something for the first time?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Emirates</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Cynthia Heimel</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Cybill Shepherd</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Josh Billings</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- English Proverb</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Stanislaw J. Lec</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are all either fools or undiscovered geniuses. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Bonnie Lin</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Garrett Marino</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- John Naisbilt</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Lady Stella Reading</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Johnathan Swift</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Norman R. Augustine</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Lauren Bacall</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- James Baldwin</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is never too late to be what you might have been. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- George Eliot</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A problem is a chance for you to do your best. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Buke Ellington</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ralph Waldo Emerson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry Ford</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry Ford</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Henry Ford</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Irish Blessing</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Do or do not. There is no try. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Heywood Brown</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Lord Byron</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Lewis Grizzard</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- George Bernard Shaw</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Roger Babson</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Byrd Baggett</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Margaret Fairless Barber</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Paul Boese</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Winston Churchill</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Franklin D. Roosevelt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Charles Schultz</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Ralph Marston</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Francis Crawford</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Josephus Daniels</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Love Actually (Prime Minister)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Tony Stark (to Jarvis, before doing a flying test run)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yeah. I can fly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Tony Stark (after testing the suit’s capabilities)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">They say that the best weapon is the one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I prefer the weapon you only have to fire once. That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it... and it's worked out pretty well so far. I present to you the newest in Stark Industries' Freedom line. Find an excuse to let one of these off the chain, and I personally guarantee, the bad guys won't even wanna come out of their caves. Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration... the Jericho.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Tony Stark</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Helen Keller</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dreams are the reality you are afraid to live, reality is the fact that your dreams will probably never come true. You can find the word me in dream, that is because it is up to you to make them come true. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Christina Pagliarulo</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ask advice of him who governs himself well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Just as iron rusts from disuse and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Leonardo da Vinci</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the life of mankind. He should use them so as to afford to every human being the greatest possible opportunity for developing and expressing his distinctively human capacity as an instrument of the spirit, as a centre of sensitive and intelligent awareness of the objective universe, as a centre of love of all lovely things, and of creative action for the spirit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Olaf Stapledon</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Doug Horton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- David Brin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Charles Sherrington</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is easy to overlook this thought that life just is. As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and desires. We want to take constant advantage of the intoxicating existence we've been endowed with. But what's life to a lichen? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours-arguably even stronger. If I were told that I had to spend decades being a furry growth on a rock in the woods, I believe I would lose the will to go on. Lichens don't. Like virtually all living things, they will suffer any hardship; endure any insult, for a moment's additions existence. Life, in short just wants to be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Bill Bryson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- E.B. White</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Omar N. Bradley</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is the middle of the night when a glittering theatre of light suddenly appears in front of the Dhaka. Where, moments before there was only darkness, suddenly there are hundreds of columns of light. The sound of helicopters and car horns carry across to the ship on the breeze. There is the scent of rain after it has evaporated from warm streets. This is unmistakably Singapore, the small city-state at the most southern point of the Asiatic mainland. Singapore was built as a centre for world trade by the British over 250 years ago, and today, Singapore has the largest container harbour in the world. This is where the axes of world trade cross paths: from the Far East to Europe, from the Far East to Southeast Asia/the East, and from the Far East to Australia. Everything runs like clockwork here. Within five hours the Dhaka has been unloaded.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Made on Earth by Wolfgang Korn</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Your right to hold an opinion is not being contested. Your expectation that it be taken seriously is.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Jason Thompson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you ask a person, “What were you thinking?” you may get an answer that is richer and more revealing of the human condition than any stream of thoughts a novelist could invent. I try to see through people’s faces into their minds and listen through their words into their lives, and what I find there is beyond imagining.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Richard Preston</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. We must daily decide whether the threats we face are real, whether the solutions we are offered will do any good, whether the problems we’re told exist are in fact real problems, or non-problems.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Michael Crichton</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Aristotle</span>Koh Xuan Yanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13767635554667886016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10003937.post-38843257967360041492015-12-21T06:00:00.000+08:002015-12-28T10:03:00.418+08:00Science & TechnologyScientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance.<br />
- Neil deGrasse Tyson<br />
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Charlie Holloway (human): “What we hoped to achieve was to meet our makers. To get answers. Why they even made us in the first place.”<br />
David (AI robot): “Why do you think your people made me?”<br />
Charlie Holloway (human): “We made you because we could.”<br />
David (AI robot): “Can you imagine how disappointing it would be for you to hear the same thing from your creator?”<br />
Charlie Holloway (human): “I guess it's good you can't be disappointed.”<br />
- Prometheus (2012)<br />
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In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.<br />
- Carl Sagan<br />
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When legacy firms fail to innovate, start-ups jump into the market and thrive at the establishment’s expense. That’s disruption.<br />
- Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX President<br />
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Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.<br />
- James Randi<br />
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Does it mean, if you don’t understand something, and the community of physicists don’t understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here’s a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn’t understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that’s how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that’s how you want to come at the problem.<br />
- Neil deGrasse Tyson<br />
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The best answer to the question, “Will computers ever be as smart as humans?” is probably “Yes, but only briefly”.<br />
- Vernor Vinge<br />
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The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity.<br />
- Abraham Lincoln<br />
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Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses - especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.<br />
- Leonardo da Vinci<br />
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.<br />
- Carl Sagan<br />
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.<br />
- Galileo Galilei<br />
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Infinities and indivisibles transcend our finite understanding, the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness; Imagine what they are when combined.<br />
- Galileo Galilei<br />
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Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes ... We cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in the mathematical language ... without whos.<br />
- Galileo Galilei<br />
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Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it - we mean to lead it.<br />
- President John F. Kennedy<br />
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.<br />
- Arthur C. Clarke<br />
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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.<br />
- Arthur C. Clarke<br />
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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. I am not speaking, of course, of the beauty which strikes the senses, of the beauty of qualities and appearances. I am far from despising this, but it has nothing to do with science. What I mean is that more intimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts, and which a pure intelligence can grasp.<br />
- Henri Poincaré<br />
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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.<br />
- Johannes Kepler<br />
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For I dipped into the Future, far as human eye could see; saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.<br />
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson<br />
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First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.<br />
- Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky<br />
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.<br />
- Carl Sagan<br />
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.<br />
- Carl Sagan<br />
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.<br />
- Carl Sagan<br />
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.<br />
- Carl Sagan<br />
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.<br />
- Carl Sagan<br />
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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.<br />
- Albert Einstein<br />
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The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.<br />
- Albert Einstein<br />
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When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.<br />
- Albert Einstein<br />
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The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.<br />
- Albert Einstein<br />
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.<br />
- Albert Einstein<br />
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.<br />
- Albert Einstein<br />
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If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?<br />
- Albert Einstein<br />
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Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.<br />
- Arthur Eddington<br />
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There once was a brainy baboon, Who always breathed down a bassoon, For he said, "It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune".<br />
- Arthur Eddington<br />
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We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.<br />
- Arthur Eddington<br />
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We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.<br />
- Arthur Eddington<br />
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We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because "two" is "one and one." We forget that we still have to make a study of "and."<br />
- Arthur Eddington<br />
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Who will observe the observers?<br />
- Arthur Eddington<br />
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.<br />
- Isaac Asimov<br />
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.<br />
- Isaac Asimov<br />
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There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.<br />
- Isaac Asimov<br />
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Science is the power of Man.<br />
- Ikari Gendo “Neon Genesis Evangelion”<br />
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The discovery of natural law is a meeting with God.<br />
- F. Dessauer<br />
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The more we know of things, the more we know of God.<br />
- Baruch Spinoza<br />
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The order, the symmetry, the harmony enchant us…God is pure order. He is the originator of universal harmony.<br />
- Gottfried Leibniz<br />
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Science ain’t an exact science.<br />
- Twelve Monkeys<br />
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We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier of this epoch... We cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand slow march of our intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities.<br />
- James Michener<br />
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Today, everybody remembers Galileo. How many can name the bishops and professors who refused to look through his telescope?<br />
- James Hogan<br />
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain. And as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.<br />
- Einstein<br />
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Einstein never accepted quantum mechanics because of this element of chance and uncertainty. He said: God does not play dice. It seems that Einstein was doubly wrong. The quantum effects of black holes suggests that not only does God play dice, He sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.<br />
- Steven Hawking<br />
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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.<br />
- Calvin and Hobbes<br />
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."<br />
- Isaac Asimov<br />
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.<br />
- Richard Feynman<br />
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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.<br />
- Richard Feynman<br />
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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.<br />
- Richard Feynman<br />
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If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.<br />
- Richard Feynman<br />
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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there.<br />
- Richard Feynman<br />
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The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.<br />
- Bill Gates<br />
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When you think about flying, it's nuts really. Here you are at about 40,000 feet, screaming along at 700 miles an hour and you're sitting there drinking Diet Pepsi and eating peanuts. It just doesn't make any sense.<br />
- David Letterman<br />
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The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air.<br />
- Wilbur Wright<br />
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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.<br />
- Edwin Powell Hubble<br />
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.<br />
- Albert Einstein<br />
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There were two kinds of physicists in Berlin: on the one hand there was Einstein, and on the other all the rest.<br />
- Rudolph Ladenburg<br />
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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.<br />
- Henri Poincare<br />
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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.<br />
- Marie Curie<br />
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.<br />
- Mark Twain<br />
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The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers; he's one who asks the right questions.<br />
- Claude Lévi-Strauss<br />
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.<br />
- Bertrand Russell<br />
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To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.<br />
- Evelyn Fox Keller<br />
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Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.<br />
- Henri Poincare<br />
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.<br />
- G.W. Allport<br />
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.<br />
- John Dewey<br />
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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.<br />
- Richard P. Feynman<br />
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To say that science is logical is like saying that a painting is paint.<br />
- Leon Cooper<br />
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Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.<br />
- Martin Luther King Jr.<br />
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It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.<br />
- Jawaharlal Nehru<br />
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It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference. Occasionally, of course, an observation can shatter the frame and force the construction of a new one, but that is extremely rare. Galileos and Einsteins seldom appear more than once per century, which is just as well for the equanimity of mankind.<br />
- Arthur C. Clarke<br />
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If you see an antimatter version of yourself running towards you, think twice before embracing.<br />
- J. Richard Gott III<br />
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Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.<br />
- Werner Heisenberg<br />
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It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.<br />
- Albert Einstein<br />
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When a conjecture inspires new hopes or creates new fears, action is indicated. There is an important asymmetry between hope, which leads to actions that will test its basis, and fear, which leads to restriction of options frequently restricting testing of the basis for the fear. As we know only too well, many of our hopes do not survive their tests. However, fears accumulate untested. Our inventory of untested fears has always made humanity disastrously vulnerable to thought control. While science was independent of politics, its greatest triumph was the reduction of that vulnerability.<br />
- Arthur Kantrowitz, Dartmouth College (1994)Koh Xuan Yanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13767635554667886016noreply@blogger.com