"Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe."

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Denis Donoghue

#Would Be Quotes #Engagement Quotes #Literature Quotes

“'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.”
“You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.”
“Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate) the undertakings enter unto ("les engagements contractÃ©s", Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly ("Ã©ventuellement", Fr.) in another.”
“For me he (Tendulkar) is one of the greatest cricketers”
“If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.”
“Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater on the planet ... essential to produce food for our planet's growing population. The rainforests of the world also provide the livelihoods of more than a billion of the poorest people on this Earth... In simple terms, the rainforests, which encircle the world, are our very life-support system-and we are on the verge of switching it off.”
“In the West audiences think I am a stereotyped action star, or that I always play hitmen or killers. But in Hong Kong, I did a lot of comedy, many dramatic films, and most of all, romantic roles, lots of love stories. I was like a romance novel hero”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe that the purpose of life is to glorify God.”

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