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The Husbands

by Holly Gramazio (Goodreads Author)

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From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time

by Sean Carroll (Goodreads Author)

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“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

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“America does not want change, except from the cash register at Wal-Mart.”
― James Howard Kunstler

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“...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

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“In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: emptiness, humanity, loneliness, love, space

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“Most people today think they belong to a species that can be master of its destiny. This is faith, not science. We do not speak of a time when whales or gorillas will be masters of their destinies. Why then humans?”
― John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

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