"...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating."

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Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.45, Canongate Books

Erlend Loe

#Stars Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Differences Quotes

“Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back.”

Source : Kevin Dutton (2012). “The Wisdom of Psychopaths”, p.189, Random House
“My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.”
“A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.”

Source : "Jesse Jackson: A Candid Conversation with the Civil Rights Leader". Interview With Arthur Kretchmer, playboysfw.kinja.com. February 24, 2014.
“It is a privilege for me to serve the NFL. It is the only place I have ever wanted to work.”
“For the law, the clarity of language and the finality of judgment is crucial, because you have to decide a case one way or another - whether it is criminal or civil or whatever. In ordinary life, you do not have to decide things with absolute finality. You do not have to decide on a theory in order to behave in a certain way towards other people.”
“Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanquished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch for a saving hand while yet there was time.”
“Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls.”
“Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.”

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