"Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?"

-- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

#Stars Quotes #Future Quotes #Light Quotes

“Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.”

Source : Virgil (1852). “The Eclogues and Georgics of Virgil: With English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, and a Metrical Index”, p.336
“One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.”
“I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.”
“Why does it have to be hard in life? I was waiting all through life for love. When I finally found it, it is far far away from where I am.”
“Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone to a joust. Especially not in a subterranean burial chamber. All right, I said uncertainly. But won't we be needing horses for that? Not horses, he replied, stepping away from his throne. Birds.”
“He who does not know how to deceive does not know how to rule.”
“We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most of our best words, in fact - new, adventure, surprise; unique, individual, person, vocation; time, history, future; freedom, progress, spirit; faith, hope, justice - are the gifts of the Jews.”

Source : "Jews Built the Civilization That the Irish Saved / Thomas Cahill says Israelites provided the foundation for Western culture" by Ron H. Feldman, www.sfgate.com. March 29, 1998.
“Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.”

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