"I have always thought that while it's wonderful to be the first to do something, you don't want to be the last."

-- Sandra Day O'Connor

#Wonderful Quotes

“We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.”
“I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.”
“The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.”
“I like the idea of the museum world and the university-academic situation where artists talk to each other or where artists or art students study with artists.”
“I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.”
“My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and are no longer appearing on the stage and they are no longer writing, that their lifetime of acknowledgement by the general reading public is not very long.There were many people in the 19th century who were equally famous people who gave working man's lectures, supporters of Darwin, we as scholars know their names but the general public never heard of them.”

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“The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning.”
“Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.”

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