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“kindness always is – direct, naive, effortless.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“Latest estimates, extrapolating from the current catalogs, suggests as many as forty billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way alone. Those are the planets our descendants might want to visit someday, by choice, if not by necessity.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

“The day our knowledge of the cosmos ceases to expand, we risk regressing to the childish view that the universe figuratively and literally revolves around us. In that bleak world, arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations would be prone to act on their “low contracted prejudices.” And that would be the last gasp of human enlightenment—until the rise of a visionary new culture that could once again embrace, rather than fear, the cosmic perspective.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

“My model for business is the Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s…negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people. —STEVE JOBS”
― Graham Moore, The Last Days of Night