"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."

-- C. S. Lewis

#Life Quotes #Universe Quotes

“If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.”
“We must walk in solidarity with those who are living with HIV/AIDS and with those at risk. As witnesses of Christ, we are called to respect the dignity of each person and to promote healthy living - physically, spiritually, morally and psychologically - through prevention and treatment”
“I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.”
“On tour things go wrong all the time, I mean that's live music, that's what it's all about. I think one of the things I'm learning is that when stuff goes wrong, really brilliant musicians have the ability to turn this into something interesting and unique. I think good people in any sphere of anything know how to deal with problems, how to take it in your stride. We are learning this by touring, by being put in these positions when we need to focus and deal with it.”

Source : Source: www.clashmusic.com
“For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they are waking up, because man has come to rouse them. Stones have begun to speak, because an ear is there to hear them. Layers become history and, released from the enchanted sleep of eternity, life's motley, never-ending dance rises out of the black depths of the past into the light of the present.”

Source : "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" edited by Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, Springer Science & Business Media, (p. 1785), January 5, 2012.
“So I think it's better to say something than not to say anything at all, even to an ignorant person.”
“It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.”
“All education is despotism. It is perhaps impossible for the young to be conducted without introducing in many cases the tyranny implicit in obedience. Go there; do that; read; write; rise; lie down - will perhaps forever be the language addressed to youth by age.”

Source : William Godwin (1823). “The enquirer. Reflections on education, manners, and literature. In a series of essays”, p.53

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