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We are here and it is now. Further …

15 Feb , 2011  

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. Great short quote and quotation by: H. L. Mencken , US editor (1880 – 1956)

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Josephine Hart, "Sin"

We are here to add to the sum of hu…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because […]

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Rabbi Harold Kushner

We are here to change the world wit…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough. Great short quote and quotation by: Rabbi Harold Kushner ,

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We are inclined to believe those wh…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. Great short quote and quotation by: Samuel Johnson , English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 – 1784)

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Adelle Davis

We are indeed much more than what w…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. Great short quote and quotation by: Adelle Davis ,

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Stephen Hawking, Der Spiegel, 1989

We are just an advanced breed of mo…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Great short quote and quotation by: Stephen Hawking, Der Spiegel, 1989 , English cosmologist and physicist (1942 – )

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Stephen Hawking

We are just an advanced breed of mo…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. Great short quote and quotation by: Stephen Hawking , English cosmologist and physicist (1942 – )

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Arthur C. Clarke

We are just tenants on this world. …

15 Feb , 2011  

We are just tenants on this world. We have just been given a new lease, and a warning from the landlord. Great short quote and quotation by: Arthur C. Clarke, 2010 , English physicist & science fiction author (1917 – )

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H. G.Wells, The Time Machine

We are kept keen on the grindstone …

15 Feb , 2011  

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. Great short quote and quotation by: H. G.Wells, The Time Machine ,

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Bernard of Chartres

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a great distance, not by virtue of any sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size. Great short quote and quotation by: […]

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We are like sculptors, constantly c…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. Great short quote and quotation by: Anais Nin , US (French-born) author & diarist (1903 – 1977)

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Lawrence K. Frank

We are living the events which for …

15 Feb , 2011  

We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the […]

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