"Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you."

-- Carl Sagan

#Wish Quotes #Mars Quotes #Reason Quotes

“What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm caring smile of a person who may otherwise seem ugly and rude. In such miraculous but extremely fragile moments, another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded;it slips all too easily through our fingers and must be handled as carefully as a butterfly”
“I think we have a choice every single day in how we want to live our life. You wake up and you make your choice of what you want to do with your day that's going to help you achieve your dream.”
“The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.”
“The first fundamental of successful city life: People must take a modicum of responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other. This is a lesson no one learns by being told. It is learned from the experience of having other people without ties of kinship or close friendship or formal responsibility to you take a modicum of responsibility for you.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.82, Vintage
“Thank goodness my education was neglected.”
“In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.”
“I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It's very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.”

Source : "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.
“With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?”

Source : "Fictional character: Buddy Ryan". "Night Court (TV Series). From Snoop to Nuts: Part 2", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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