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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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Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

by David Fasold Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

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Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

by Anonymous Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be read more

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

by Lawrence D. Bell Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on

by Rita Dove Found in: Exploration Quotes,
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What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and read more

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

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It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

by John Cassis Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

by Sir Edwin Arnold Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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