"We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from."

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Source : "Join the SETI search". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2009.

Jill Tarter

#Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Long Quotes

“Of private differences personal to himself, my brother had none.”

Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.65, Anza Publishing
“Lessons are not given, they are taken.”

Source : Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.280, Transaction Publishers
“If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.”
“A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.”

Source : Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.76, Knopf
“Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.”
“The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.”
“I'm a really huge fan of the old romantic comedies from the '30s and '40s... Huge fan. I love all that stuff.”
“Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.”

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