#tar

To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#fairness #justice #life #vegetarianism #life

Everyone is lonely," Ranulf said, but he smiled. "We have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about past or future. Happiness is in the now." Raquel laughed. "Vic has totally brainwashed you. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#claudia-gray #evernight-series #ranulf #raquel #stargazer

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#evolution #life #origin-of-life #perspective #philosophy

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#humans #life #science #solar-power #star-stuff

Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#life #rewards #sacrifices #tariq #life

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there. ↗

— Gene Roddenberry

#humanity #life #maturity #space-exploration #star-trek

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them! ↗

— Albert Einstein

#military #violence #war #life

There’s truth in only having a bicycle seat. I used to skip class and just hold it out in the hallway. When teachers would ask me what I was doing, I’d hold it up and say, “Sorry I’m late.” 
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— Jarod Kintz

#late #life #sorry #student #tardy

So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course. ↗

— George Carlin

#life

When people stargazing, they stare at stars, and many other things which they've already presumed commonly and universally as stars. ↗

— Toba Beta

#civilization #life #sky #space #star