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    After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to read more

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

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Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

by Lord Barnett Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. read more

Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.

by Carol Lewis Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

by Noam Chomsky Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.

The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.

by Al-nuri Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time read more

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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Pity is treason.

Pity is treason.

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Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

by Tom Stoppard Found in: Mortality Quotes,
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Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

by Robert Hewison Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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