"In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?"

-- Bruce Sterling

#World Quotes #Littles Quotes #Dignity Quotes

“An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.”
“Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.”

Source : "Anything but a kept woman" by Neasa MacErlean, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2001.
“I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.”

Source : Quoted in John Bainbridge, Garbo (1955)
“If you look at Earth from space you see a dot, that's here. That's home. That's us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
“I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases a greater amount of energy than all the explosions set off by all countries in all wars known in the entire history of mankind. And he, apparently, is right.”
“There is no sin in not liking to play; it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want to.”
“Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.”
“Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used Godâ€™s way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend Fight out lifeâ€™s battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red, Threw down his broken sword and fled. Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.”

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