"Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are."

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Source : "Skydiver Baumgartner lands safely on Earth after supersonic record" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.

Felix Baumgartner

#Positivity Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he listened to Bob Dylan. He listened to Grateful Dead and Rolling Stones, but he also listened to reggae music. And he collected vinyl.”
“Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.”
“I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.”
“Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.”
“The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder that Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz erected in order to scale the heavens rests upon a continually shifting, unstable foundation.”

Source : Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.382, Oxford University Press
“What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.”
“With two women every week in England and Wales being killed by their partner or ex-partner, we need to act now to end domestic violence. I am only too pleased to add my name to the Real Man campaign for Women's Aid.”
“Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.”

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