"Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs â€” in time, in space, and in potential â€” the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors."

-- Carl Sagan

#Space Quotes #Overcoming Quotes #Tiny Quotes

“I don't reflect much, unless I'm talking to the media. I have more of a 'Forward, march!' kind of attitude.”

Source : Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. December 8, 2009.
“So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hope that they will prove useful citizens of their country and respectable members of society. I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.”
“Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come? I guarantee nothing but a free trip to Peru and the South Sea islands and back, but you will find good use for your technical abilities on the voyage. Reply at once.' Next day the following telegram arrived from Torstein: COMING. TORSTEIN.”

Source : Thor Heyerdahl (1990). “Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft”, p.33, Simon and Schuster
“A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.”

Source : "Portrait of the Artist: Andrea Bocelli, Tenor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2010.
“I'm so loyal, I haven't bathed in weeks!”
“We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - Âwhich group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.”
“We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.”

Source : "Soviet Foreign Policy Toward Western Europe" by George Ginsburgs and Alvin Z. Rubinstein, (p. 105), 1978.
“The Board of Inquiry report fails to recognize that the central problem in the Los Angeles Police Department is the culture. The reality is there will not be meaningful reform in the Los Angeles Police Department until the culture is changed.”

Source : "Report faults LAPD culture for corruption", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2000.

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