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" Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. "

Carl Sagan

Light

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Dark

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" I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another. "

" The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent. "

" Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. "

Carl Sagan

Will

Never

" Great teaching requires incredible talent and dedication, strong intellectual ability and interpersonal skill, real discipline and empathy. "

" We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher. "

" Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. "

" Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors. "

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Strength

Nature

Value

" The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat. "

" Always in life bad times will lead to great times. "

" When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. "

" With great power comes great responsibility. These are platforms with hundreds of millions of people. "

" I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.' "

" I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star. "

" Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness. "

" Imagination has a great deal to do with winning. "

" In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'. "

" I've watched with a kind of wary eye how gaming has progressed. I was there at the beginning with Pong in the arcade, and a lot of my great childhood memories were around a 'Tempest' machine. "

" I am such a sap when it comes to love! I believe in love at first sight all the way. But that's just the way it happened to me with my relationships. I love the idea of two people looking at each other and electricity flying around them; it's so romantic, and it's a great feeling. "

" There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them. "

" The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. "

" The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. "

" Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. "

" The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star. "

Elton John

Rock And Roll

Great

" If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? "

" I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you. "

" A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique. "

" The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before. "