"Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit either the ocean or desolate regions on Earth's surface. So why do movie meteors have such good aim?"

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Ocean Quotes #Water Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."”
“Orchestras seem content to be museums now, even as they wring their hands about dropping subscription sales and graying listeners.”
“So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.”
“I'm motivated by injustice, which is embedded and constant and wrong - not by a vernacular soundboard.”
“the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

Source : Charles Bukowski (1972). “Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness”
“To me, this goes beyond disappointing. It shows that we are failing to gain ground on the very conditions we need to reverse to improve our graduation rates and produce more students who are ready for college and the workforce.”
“He who thinks that macrobiotic living is merely a cure for physical ailments, however, can never rea be helped. It is not a new medicine to stop pain or suffering, but rather a teaching that goes to the source of pain and eradicates it.”

Source : "Essential Ohsawa: From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics". Book edited by Carl Ferré and Herman Aihara, p. 81, 1994.

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