"In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to question everything and to give a fair hearing to everything?"

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Source : Carl Sagan (2006). “The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God”, p.195, Penguin

Carl Sagan

#Giving Quotes #Hearing Quotes #Willing Quotes

“All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.”
“Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.”

Source : Song: I'm Ready
“I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat.”
“One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.”
“I think the biggest survival instinct that Midwesterners possess is self deprecation, it's almost a Buddha-like sense of humor in anything that is difficult to get through. They would prefer to laugh at difficulties, show their mettle through that, and toughen up and have a beer afterward. That's definitely the characteristic I've carried through me, and hope to never lose.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com
“Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.246, Macmillan
“I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'”
“The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.”

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