"Our five senses evolved for survivability, and probably are the minimum necessary for our survival. There is so much of the universe which we cannot and do not see... We do now know from instrumentation developed just in the last fifty years more about some of what's out there in the universe."

-- Mary Davis

#Years Quotes #Survival Quotes #Fifty Quotes

“I like to read books. I like to listen to music.”
“I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.”

Source : "Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.
“If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.
“Our creator says, 'Here's your birth and here's your death' - and the rest are the things you learn on your journey. This was my experience - and the choice is, I can lay in the misery, or choose to learn from it and move on.”
“Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.”
“If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.”

Source : DBC Pierre (2007). “Ludmila's Broken English: A Novel”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company
“Death must obliterate all memories and affections and ideas and laws, or the awakening in the next world will be amid the welcomes, and loves and raptures of those who left us with tearful farewells, and with dying promises that they would wait to welcomes us when we should arrive. And so they do. Not sorrowfully, not anxiously, but lovingly, they wait to bid us welcome.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 305), 1895.
“Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.”

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