"Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with the astronomer, or the minutest works with the physicist. ... [K]nowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars."

-- Arthur Eddington

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“A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.”
“Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Why wear pants when you can wear a muumuu?”
“Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettos and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettos and barrios would be the second wand.”

Source : "Two Wands, One Nation: An Essay on Race and Community in America". Book by Richard Lamm, 2006.
“Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death.”
“Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.”
“As I grow older, I put all life's bulls**t aside. I think the process of the laying off of the bulls**t starts around 40. Before that, most men have their heads stuck in their ass. After 40, you see things differently. You've found yourself. You're accepting yourself and what you got from life.”
“Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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