"I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky."

-- Clyde Tombaugh

#Sky Quotes #Desire Quotes #Use Quotes

“Hip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that is Black-hating, that is pugilistic, that is to say all about fighting and war and killing and gangsterism.”
“We look so very different from the way we sound. Itâ€™s a shock, similar to hearing your own voice for the first time, when youâ€™re forced to wonder how the rest of you comes across if you sound nothing like the way you think you sound. You feel dislodged from the old shoe of yourself.”
“At the time I wasn't really familiar with Caucasians and he got me up out of that 'cause they regular people just like everybody else.”
“A man who is good from docility, and not from stern self-control, has no character.”
“You will leave now," said Grdankl the Strong. "Go! Do not be afraid! If you die, it is okay!”
“The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.”
“There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.”
“Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.”

Source : Augustus De Morgan (1872). “A Budget of Paradoxes”, p.377

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