"Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are."

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Source : George Gamow (1965). “Matter, Earth, and Sky”

George Gamow

#Stars Quotes #Afar Quotes #Sun Quotes

“Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.”
“I've never been seriously involved with anyone. I've certainly never been in love. I've always preferred to keep things casual.”
“These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.”
“Vincent Forte was kicked out of the UFC because he was too hardcore.”
“If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the water will flow and blend into the river's brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen.”

Source : Therese Anne Fowler (2013). “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.274, Macmillan
“I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.”
“An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.”
“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.”

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