"What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earthâ€¦. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spotsâ€¦. When I watched the horizon, I saw the abrupt, contrasting transition from the earthâ€™s light-colored surface to the absolutely black sky. I enjoyed the rich color spectrum of the earth. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquiose, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black."

Source : "Earth's Aura". Book by Louise B. Young, 1977.

Yuri Gagarin

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“To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.”

Source : Bertrand Russell (2009). “Mortals and Others”, p.318, Routledge
“Yes, with Le Mans, obviously, the approach needs to be different. You have a race only once a year, so in the whole focus, the whole energy, you know that you cannot change the world and have a race two weeks later.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Iâ€™ve actually been in a lot of movies that involve sucking on fingers.”
“The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves, for me, are those with which a piece, counteracting the gravitational force of the center, suddenly fly to the edge of the board.”

Source : Chessville.com Article, October 31, 2010.
“Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you ,just keep on believing in yourself and turn it in to something positive.”

Source : "Jack Wilshere out for three months as Arsène Wenger's injury list grows" by David Hytner, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2014.
“The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.”

Source : John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.476
“The erosion of agency has consequences for our politics. As a result of all this, the fundamental ethical challenge of the anthropocene is the recovery of agency, or alternatively to come to terms with its loss and to understand how to go on.”
“I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.”

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