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“We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.”
Richard Dawkins
“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce.”
Vivian Komori
“The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”
Maya Angelou
“Sometimes you just gotta pet the whales.”
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/co...
Joel Sartore
“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.”
Socrates
“Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”
Pablo Picasso
“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
Socrates
“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
George S. Patton
“There’s about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary.”
Jacques Cousteau
“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.”
Napoleon Hill
“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
Robert Frost
“Wit is the lowest form of humor.”
Alexander Pope
“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.”
Carl Sandburg
“And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.”
John Lennon
“There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.”
Lord Byron
“The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/j...
Edward Snowden
“Gentlemen, my odds for success improve with each attempt.”
A Beautiful Mind, 2001. Film.
John Nash
“Obstacles Can't Stop You, Problems Can't Stop You, People Can't Stop You. Only You Can Stop You!”
Jeffrey Gitomer
“Always desire to learn something useful.”
Sophocles
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell
“Evolution never looks to the future.”
Richard Dawkins