"You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you."

-- Vandana Shiva

#Inspirational Quotes #Inspiring Quotes #World Quotes

“I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.”

Source : Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific
“It's a big deal in my city to have a breath of fresh air.”

Source : "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.
“No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.”
“Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.”

Source : "General System Theory". Book by Ludwig von Bertalanffy. Chapter 3: "Some System Concepts in Elementary Mathematical Consideration", p. 69, 1968.
“She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the powers of either volition or motion. She was so tired, so stunned, that she thought she never slept at all; her feverish thoughts passed and repassed the boundary between sleeping and waking, and kept their own miserable identity.”
“The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.”
“Your dreams are always going to be the most important to you than they will be to anybody else. So keep dreaming, keep believing, keep pressing forward. So all those warriors out there â€“ be encouraged”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.”

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