"Like simple minded goldfish, we often believe the boundaries of our bowl to be the entire ocean."
Laren Grey Umphlett
"Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic - the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless, and the magic of loving your readers."
Khalil Gibran
"In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end."
Dada Bhagwan
"The moon is considered a relatively easy object to land humans on, everything else is much harder by orders of magnitude. It is the reason why we have not been to Mars and will likely never go there successfully with humans."
Steven Magee
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"No other ethnic group has even come close to matching the abilities and accomplishments of Jews."
H.W. Charles
"Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance."
H. G. Bohn
"Allow your natural personality to shine through without pretending to be someone you're not, or you may be stuck with that label forever."
Susan C. Young
"Men write Bibles. God doesn't. God writes in stars and worlds and seasons and Hudson Rivers and beautiful women. Creation is the good book."
Mark Siegel
"Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say."
Jonathan Sacks
"To learn new things one has to be open and vulnerable.."
Jayesh Varma
"Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another."
Emma Goldman
"A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up."
Gabriel García Márquez
"Who can know anybody?' said the bookshop owner. 'Every person is like thousands of books. New, reprinting, in stock, out of stock, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, rubbish. The lot. Different every day. One's lucky to be able to put his hand on the one that's wanted, let alone know it."
Russell Hoban
"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer."
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