"So far, as far as we know comet Wild 2 is a unique object."

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Source : "Wild 2 comet unlike any other" by Robert Roy Britt, www.cnn.com. June 17, 2004.

Donald E. Brownlee

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“From a still wider and more comprehensive point of view, universal life itself appears to us as a struggle between multiplicity and unity - a labor and an aspiration towards union. We seem to sense that - whether we conceive it as a divine Being or as a cosmic energy - the Spirit working upon and within all creation is shaping it into order, harmony, and beauty, uniting all beings (some willing but the majority as yet blind and rebellious) with each other through links of love, achieving - slowly and silently, but powerfully and irresistibly - the Supreme Synthesis.”

Source : Roberto Assagioli (2000). “Psychosynthesis: a collection of basic writings”, Synthesis Center
“Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.”
“Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.”
“At the root of all the various manifestations of dancing lies the common impulse to resort to movement to externalize emotional states which we cannot externalize by rational means.”
“European government is a clear expression I still use, you need time, but step by step, as in the Austrian case, the European Commission takes a political decision and behaves like a growing government.”
“The documentation about the work isn't of real importance to me either. I've done lots of works without taking photographs.”
“Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.”

Source : "Google isn't making us dumb - or smart. That's the problem" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2009.
“Those who have entered into the afflictions of Christ for His Church's sake know something of what they mean, for they have learned in a measure to pour out their souls unto death, in fellowship with Him.”

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