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you'll die tomorrow.
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever
dies."
"Get busy livin' or get busy dyin' "
-- Shawshank Redemption
The story is told of five men sitting around a potbellied stove, arguing
about which is the "right" religion--which offers the greatest assurance
of salvation. It was a fruitless discussion because no one could
agree. Finally they turned to a wise fellow who had been sitting
in the corner listening.
"Gentleman," he said, "when the cotton is picked, there are several
ways to get it to the gin. We can take the northern route--it's longer
but the road is better. Or we can take the southern route, which
is shorter but filled with chuckholes. Or we can go over the mountain,
even though it's more perilous. When we reach the gin, though, the
man doesn't ask which way we came. He simply asks, 'Brother, how
good is your cotton?' "
-- Dale Turner, Grateful Living
Eppur si muove.
But it does move.
-- Galileo Galilei
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It has been written that we are no greater than our dreams. Dreams
are the touchstones of our characters.
-- Henry David Thoreau
The future belongs to those who believe in the power of their dreams.
-- Frankin Roosevelt
I believe that the first test of a truly great man is humility.
-- John Ruskin
My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of
my life there.
-- Charles F. Kettering
When you think you know everything,
they give you your Bachelor's Degree.
When you realize you don't know anything,
they give you your Master's Degree.
When you realize you don't know anything and neither does anyone else,
they give you your PhD.
-- Unknown
"One is led to a new notion of unbroken wholeness which denies the classical
idea of analyzability of the world into separately and independently existing
parts...We have reversed the usual classical notion that the 'elementary
parts' of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems
are merely contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather,
we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe
is the fundamental reality, and that the relatively independent behaving
parts are particular and contingent forms within this whole"
-- David Bohm, "On the Intuitive Understanding of Nonlocality as
Implied by Quantum Theory"
To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity is an hour.
--William Blake, "Auguries of Innocence"
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