"There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good."

-- Hannah Whitall Smith

#World Quotes #Goodness Quotes #Equal Quotes

“A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting ***** in the world!...”
“Norah looked at her sonâ€™s tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still wore it like a wrist band, something that might easily slip off and disappear. She had read about people â€“ where? she could not remember this either â€“ who refused to name their children for several weeks, feeling them to be not yet of the earth, suspended still between two worlds.”
“Most people hugely underestimate the amount of 'empty space' we have in our country. Fly over the U.K., and you see that human settlement does not fill up the U.K. at all. It accounts for something of the order of 15 per cent of the landmass.”
“While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only is Earth not in the center of the solar system, but the solar system is not in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy is not in the center of the universe, and it may come to pass that our universe is just one of many that comprise a multiverse. And in case you're one of those people who thinks that the edge may be a special place, we are not at the edge of anything either.”
“We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.”
“Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.”
“Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.”
“In order to do a musical now, a style must be developed that works for today's audience.”

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