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A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#inspirational #science #age

Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me. ↗

— Isaac Hanson

#because #being #drummer #end #generally

Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof. ↗

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

#discovery #down #duty #found #i

I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#been #decided #get #go #had

A very long time ago, Grandmother had wanted to tell about all the things they did, but no one had bothered to ask. And now she had lost the urge. ↗

— Tove Jansson

#forgotten-memories #age

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person. ↗

— Jean Harris

#people #person #poking #rat #rats

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#better #dilemma #get #hate #love

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. ↗

— Socrates

#course #man #marriage #repent #sure

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. ↗

— Socrates

#knowledge #meaning #meaning of #nothing #true

There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#banking system #debt #deeper #ever #expansion