"The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality."

-- Irving Babbitt

#Unity Quotes #Mind Quotes #Balance Quotes

“Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then....”
“The basis for true change is freedom from negativity. And that's what acceptance implies: no negativity about what is. And then you see what this moment requires: what is it that is required now so that life can express itself more fully?”
“The Iran nuclear issue is on top of the agenda. It is a very complicated issue with long history.”
“Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.”
“The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.”
“People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a bad magic trick. I just keep bending over to reach for this wallet on a string. How much longer am I gonna do that?"”
“I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.”
“An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.”

Source : "Asteroid". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil Degrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. October 3, 2006.

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