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| "For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love." Carl Sagan "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Albert Einstein "Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone I hear you call my name And it feels like home I hear your voice, it's like an angel sighing I have no choice, I hear your voice Feels like flying I close my eyes, Oh God I think I'm falling Out of the sky, I close my eyes Heaven help me..." Madonna "Silence alone is great; all else is weakness." Alfred DeVigny "All things are artificial, for the nature is the art of God." Thomas Browne "The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them." Walt Whitman "Oh, speak again, bright angel . . ." William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet "Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?" Euripides "Wonder is the basis of worship." Thomas Carlyle "I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and the noblest motive for scientific research." Albert Einstein "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on." Robert Frost "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may ol' time is still a' flying, for that same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be dying." Robert Herrick "Anyone who has not been shocked by quantum physics has not understood it." Niels Bohr "Dreams are the answers to the questions we haven't learned how to ask." The X-Files "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. 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." Albert Einstein "Angels needs an assumed body, not for themselves, but on our account." Thomas Aquinas. "Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love." Charlie Brown "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." Max Planc "Looking at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on a map. Why, I ask myself, shouldn't the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?" Vincent Van Gogh "Self improvement is masturbation. Self destruction is the answer" Tyler Durden, Fight Club "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society." Mark Twain "There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe." Albert Einstein "Whisper words of wisdom, let it be." The Beatles "The world is nearly all parceled out, and what there is left of it is being divided up, conquered, and colonized. To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds that we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far." Cecil Rhodes "Human speach is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for the bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars." Gustave Flaubert "The sky was green; and i felt good." Albert Camus "Music is well said to be the speech of angels." Carlyle "Let me die to the sounds of delicious music." Last words of Mirabeau "Surely the stars are images of love." Bailey "Seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars / Break up the Night, and make it beautiful." Bayard Taylor "The stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen bu the edge of the sword; but not so many as have fallen by the tongue." Ecclesiasticus, Bible "He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock." Plautus "I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew Hands, organs dimensions, sences, afections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?" Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. "Stolen kisses are always sweetest." Leigh Hunt |
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