"He broke through the barriers of the skies."

-- William Herschel

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“And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.”
“Apparently, union bosses are so distraught about declining enrollments they will stoop to exploiting illegal workers. There is no doubt that this would hurt American workers, who would suddenly face a flooded job market full of cheap foreign labor. It would depress the wages of the American workers and cost them jobs.”
“Love means to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many.”

Source : "Rescue". Book by Czeslaw Milosz, 1945.
“If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to oneâ€™s existence, if one does not use the mind to itâ€™s fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess. True happiness involves the pursuit of worthy goals. Without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.”

Source : Dan Buettner (2010). “Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way”, p.16, National Geographic Books
“The eighties was an era when many companies were asset rich and cash poor.”
“The people who run the international tests told us, "the biggest predictor of student success is choice." Nations that "attach the money to the kids" and thereby allow parents to choose between different public and private schools have higher test scores. This should be no surprise; competition makes us better.”
“I grew up in an all-white community.”
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

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