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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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The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

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Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

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There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.

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It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.

by Sherrill Brown Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a read more

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

by R. D. Laing Found in: Exploration Quotes,
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No man is free who is not a master of himself.

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

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I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors read more

I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.

by Gandhi Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

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Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise read more

Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem.

by Harvey Mindess Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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