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  • #1
    Carl Sagan
    “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
    Carl Sagan

  • #2
    Marie Curie
    “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
    Marie Curie

  • #3
    Douglas Adams
    “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
    Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

  • #4
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #5
    Arthur C. Clarke
    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
    Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

  • #6
    Marie Curie
    “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”
    Marie Curie

  • #7
    Sophocles
    “When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day,
    Edging slowly back and forth toward death?
    Anyone who warms their heart with the glow
    Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all.
    The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.”
    Sophocles, Sophocles II: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes

  • #8
    Golda Meir
    “Don't be so humble - you are not that great.”
    Golda Meir

  • #9
    Rollo May
    “Depression is the inability to construct a future.”
    Rollo May, Love and Will

  • #10
    Blaise Pascal
    “Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
    Blaise Pascal

  • #11
    H.L. Mencken
    “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”
    H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

  • #12
    Bertrand Russell
    “Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #13
    Alan W. Watts
    “This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
    Alan Watts

  • #14
    Thomas Sowell
    “People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”
    Thomas Sowell, Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays

  • #15
    Benjamin Franklin
    “It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #16
    C.S. Lewis
    “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #17
    George Bernard Shaw
    “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
    George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman



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