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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #comp




poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you


Walt Whitman


#civil-war #compassion #comrade #comradeship #death

Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.


Mollie Marti


#compassion #happiness #hope #kindness #strength

The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.


Michael Denton


#biology #chance #chemical-evolution #coincidence #id

A visitor asked Lincoln what good news he could take home from an audience with the august executive. The president spun a story about a machine that baffled a chess champion by beating him thrice. The stunned champ cried while inspecting the machine, "There's a man in there!"Lincoln's good news, he confided from the heights of leadership, was that there was in fact a man in there.


Shelby Foote


#fallibility #humility #leadership #home

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.


Jaron Lanier


#crowd #individuality #internet #mob #technology

You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul.


Kevin Brockmeier


#life #rube-goldberg #soul #design

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.


Aberjhani


#famous-quotes-from-classic-books #forgiveness #healing #inspiration #positive-inspiration

In 1963, when I assigned the name "quark" to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been "kwork." Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word "quark" in the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark." Since "quark" (meaning, for one thing, the cry of a gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with "Mark," as well as "bark" and other such words, I had to find an excuse to pronounce it as "kwork." But the book represents the dreams of a publican named Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Words in the text are typically drawn from several sources at once, like the "portmanteau words" in Through the Looking Glass. From time to time, phrases occur in the book that are partially determined by calls for drinks at the bar. I argued, therefore, that perhaps one of the multiple sources of the cry "Three quarks for Muster Mark" might be "Three quarts for Mister Mark," in which case the pronunciation "kwork" would not be totally unjustified. In any case, the number three fitted perfectly the way quarks occur in nature.


Murray Gell-Mann


#science #dreams

We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.


Hermann Hesse


#individuality #opposites #uniqueness #honor

You are successful when you accomplish the goals and dreams you set for yourself.


Brenda Johnson Padgitt


#brenda-johnson-padgitt #dreams #goals #success #tasks






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