"It seems to be overwhelmingly likely that there is life out there and eventually we will make contract. And when contact is made, it will be the end of Earth's cultural evolution. It will be the greatest discovery in the history of humankind."

-- Paul Horowitz

#Discovery Quotes #Earth Quotes #Evolution Quotes

“Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.”
“Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.”
“My delusion outweighs my talent by far and it always will, because if it doesn't, then there's no point in living.”
“People don't really bother me as much as you might think.”
“The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: "This is water." "This is water." It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.”
“In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.”
“There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”
“Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.”

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