"Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt."

-- Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

#Wise Quotes #Long Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Half the audience gets where I'm coming from and half the audience is like, "Wait a minute. What does that mean?"”
“I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.”
“I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.”
“The reality is we are 0-3. The reality is that we can still be a very good football team. We need to show that on Monday night.”
“Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.”
“Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles interact with each other and seperate? Or is it to be an understanding at a deeper level in which there are things that are not directly observable (as the underlying quantized fields are) but in terms of which we shall have a more fundamental understanding?”

Source : Julian Schwinger (2013). “Quantum Mechanics: Symbolism of Atomic Measurements”, p.25, Springer Science & Business Media
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.”
“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.”

Source : "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Four, Chapter VIII, 1840.

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