"You will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic perspective such as the entire community of astrophysicists leading nations into battle. No, that doesn't happen. When you have a cosmic perspective, there's this little speck called Earth and you say you're going to do what? You're on this side of a line in the sand and you want to kill people for what?"

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Perspective Quotes #People Quotes #Community Quotes

“The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the current of popular favor is checked. The great source of free government, popular election, should be perfectly pure, and the most unbounded liberty allowed.”
“Chubby Checker lost pounds by demonstrating how to move as if you were 'drying your back with a towel' âˆ’ the substitution of the word 'back' for 'bottom' indicates the oddly wholesome image of the Twist.”
“It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.”

Source : Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.152, University of Virginia Press
“Nothing happens in the 'real' world unless it first happens in the images in our heads”
“It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.”
“Because there's such a long tradition of the arts being very prominent and very varied in Cuban culture and society, people do use the art world as a space for critical reflection and people look to it for that.”
“Every new idea is impossibility until it is born.”
“I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for”

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