"Yes, the money could be better spent on Earth. But would it? Since when has money saved by government redlining been spent on education and cancer research? It is always squandered. Let's squander some on Mars. Let's go out and play."

-- Mary Roach

#Cancer Quotes #Play Quotes #Government Quotes

“The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.”

Source : "This much I know: Joshua Ferris" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2010.
“I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.”
“There is nothing stronger than gentleness.”
“Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.”
“There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give.”
“For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of my music collection in my writing office. Since I do most of my writing outside in nature, we felt this shot was most representative.”
“I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.”
“Often the hands grasp more quickly than the head.”

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