"Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end."

-- Joan D. Vinge

#Thinking Quotes #Earth Quotes #May Quotes

“With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.”
“The great majority of people have a strong need for authority which they can admire, to which they can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats them.”
“An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique andconsequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.”
“He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's it. That's the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being.”
“The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them.”
“The thing that concerns me more than anything is when anybody becomes closed off and exclusive of other people's ideas. All of our brains are in the same mode of searching when trying to understand reality, and when we come to a belief system that makes sense to us we hold it strongly, whether it's an atheist view, or a Christian view, or a Muslim view, whatever, then it's very hard to let go and I think it's so important to try to foster dialogue.”

Source : Interview with Rahasya Poe, lotusguide.com. September 1, 2010.
“It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance”
“People who have come from nothing and started their own business or opened up a whole new niche in a particular industry, they truly inspire me.”

Source : "Benjamin Stone | Interview by Ocean Pleasant, Youth Editor". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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