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    After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

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To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

by Dick Cavett Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Do not say,"it is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as read more

Do not say,"it is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. -Rabindranath Tagore.

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Pity is treason.

Pity is treason.

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Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.

by Frank Borman Found in: Exploration Quotes,
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions read more

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

by Jean Baudrillard Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.

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Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

by William Blake Found in: Perception Quotes,
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Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.

Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.

by Anonymous Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

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