"â€ŽNot having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them."

-- Henning Mankell

#Silence Quotes #Together Quotes #Able Quotes

“The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.”

Source : Progress and Power Lecture 3 (1935)
“Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.”
“We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.”
“I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.”
“If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.”
“Most people may not think about it, but the aftermath of war is very costly. Costly not just in lives, but the treatment. Because of the efficiency of our transportation system, the efficiency of our medical technicians, people are surviving.”

Source : Source: www.achievement.org
“O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circlesâ€¦a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.”
“If our country's choice is to be a Great Power, Russia will be the great power not because of the nuclear potential, not because of faith in God or president, or western investments but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in Knowledge and Science and thanks to the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education.”

Source : "Zhores I. Alferov - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 2000.

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