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“It takes all of this technology to come up here and understand the simplicity of things. From here, its really difficult to understand borders, wars, and hate.”
“We were like the Mount Everest climbers stepping over frozen corpses from prior climbing disasters in our quest for the summit. Like those climbers, we were motivated by a fear far greater than dea...”
“The hatred of hatred is still hate.”
“But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.”
“Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity.”
“Learn to love and value yourself, regardless of the affections of others. Romantic love then becomes a wonderful bonus, rather than a necessity.”
“Make your inner foundations strong and secure and then you can enjoy your partner, rather than feeling you must own them.”
“Learn to love yourself for who you are, not just what you do - there is a big difference.”
“Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time that none of this had any right to be happening, and ...”
“I can't be a cream puff.”
“...to give a clear picture of the whole scene of Italian gastronomy.”
“After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the false hypothesis upon which the entire st...”
“Now we see how the astronomical evidence supports the Biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and Biblical accounts of Genesis a...”
“Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds ...”
“It's quite conceivable that [life] will eventually spread through thegalaxy and beyond. So life may not forever be an unimportant tracecontaminant of the universe, even though it now is. In fact,I ...”
“Sometimes I wonder about good and evil. If the villain wins, isn't he heralded as the hero? I've tried so hard to be good since that day, but sometimes I wonder whether it's even worth it. After al...”
“I am a child of the Milky Way. The night is my mother. I am made of the dust of stars. Every atom in my body was forged in a star. When the universe exploded into being, already the bird longed for...”
“News flash: The whole thing is a huge mess and a giant nightmare and its all about to explode in your face and you have no idea whatyouve gotten yourself into. Love is no game. People cut their ear...”
“I skipped toward him and gave him a tiny kiss on the cheek. Yup.He looked at me like I was crazy. What was that for?I smiled. For being an excellent partner in crime.”
“There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why should some people walk barefoot, so that others can travel in luxurious cars? Why should some l...”
