Quotes
Authors
Christiaan Huygens

"How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot."

Source : Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.142

Christiaan Huygens

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“The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.”
“We can see the child moving rather serenely in the uterus. The child senses aggression in its sanctuary. We see the child's mouth wide open in a silent scream.”
“If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph”

Source : FaceBook post by Bruce Gilden from Oct 18, 2012
“The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more.”
“Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.”
“We may talk a good game and write even better ones, but we never outgrow those small wounded things we were when we were five and six and seven.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Jul 29, 2016
“A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.”
“Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I ever met anybody who liked his or her plan, but that was not my experience, that was not my experience. And it was not my experience as a mother of five, who occasionally has a bad back and the rest of that. I was considered a poor risk, even though I had some resources and thought I was quite strong for having five children. But the insurance company didn't see it that way.”

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