"Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise."

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Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

Lewis Thomas

#Thinking Quotes #Facts Quotes #Surprise Quotes

“Don't let what other people say disturb your mind. Be happy.”
“Currently we don't have plans on conquering the world.”
“And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.”
“I come from a generation where I couldn't even contemplate such a thing. I find it amazing... You can become a multi-millionaire as a club player without playing international football. But international football is about individual pride and wanting to perform at the highest level. If I got picked at 41, I would have played, even if I thought I would make a fool of myself. I just wanted to play for my country.”

Source : "Reports of Peter Crouch England retirement amaze Sir Trevor Brooking". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.
“Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.”
“It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is the White Man who is the sole builder of civilizations. It was he who build the Egyptian civilization, the great unsurpassed Roman civilization, the Greek civilization of beauty and culture, and who, after having been dealt a serious blow by a new Semitic religion, wallowed through the Dark Ages, finally extricated himself, and then build the great European civilization.”

Source : "Nature's Eternal Religion" by Ben Klassen, (Ch. 2, Paragraph 2), 1973.
“Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by.... [If] the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?”
“I used to play trumpet when I was a kid, and then I got braces, and I couldn't really play it anymore, so sometimes I wish I could still play that; I think it's a great instrument, so maybe one of these days I'll pick it back up.”

Source : Source: blog.murfie.com

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