"We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to influence and perhaps control our future. I believe we have an obligation to fight for life on Earth - not just for ourselves, but for all those, humans and others, who came before us, and to whom we are beholden, and for all those who, if we are wise enough, will come after."

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Source : Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

Carl Sagan

#Wise Quotes #Believe Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.”
“Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Works”, p.21
“When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion may be found up the chimney". It is incredible that beneath this ever-timely reminder an obscure disciple should have added the words: "The wiser the sage, the more profound the folly.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (1963). “The Celestial Omnibus”
“I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.”
“Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.”
“The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a framework of order ... all great art ... harmonises consciousness with the ego-transcending Self.”

Source : Christopher Booker (2004). “The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories”, p.552, A&C Black
“If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.”
“Attain deliverance in disturbances.”

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