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#1

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: astronomer, science, writer

#2

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: love, mercy

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#3

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: atoms, cosmos, dna, sense-of-wonder, stars

3245 likes

#4

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: books, literacy, reading

2374 likes

#5

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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#6

“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
― Neil DeGrasse Tyson

tags: energy, life, spirituality

1052 likes

#7

“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: congratulations, encourage, encouraging, succeed, success

684 likes

#8

“The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: atheism, religion, science

515 likes

#9

“I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: death, earth, science

351 likes

#10

“My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: cosmology, inspirational, philosophy, science

308 likes

#11

“Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering.”
― Budda

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#12

“I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.”
― Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth

tags: hatred, understanding-others

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#13

“You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”
― Tennessee Williams

tags: dreamers, revolution

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#14

“Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

tags: a-streetcar-named-desire, tennessee-williams

171 likes

#15

“Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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#16

“People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.”
― Tennessee Williams , The Glass Menagerie

93 likes

#17

“Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.”
― Tennessee Williams

61 likes

#18

“The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.”
― Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer

53 likes

#19

“She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

tags: isolation, loneliness, loner, ornaments, world

76 likes

#20

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

84930 likes

#21

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

20176 likes

#22

“Knowledge cannot replace friendship. I'd rather be an idiot than lose you.”
― Patrick to Spongebob

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#23

“Do you feel it now Mr. Krabbs?”
― SpongeBob SquarePants

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