“You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. …You are not meant for crawling, so don’t. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”
– Mevlana Rumi
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“The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
– Harry Golden
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“If we don’t end war, war will end us.”
– H. G. Wells
“I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother’s womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.
What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbor’s, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
– Voltaire (Born November 21, 1691)
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“”Man’s inhumanity to man” is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.
If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion. If you intend to live in peace and harmony with your fellow-men, you and they should cultivate brotherhood and respect for each other. If you want to work together with them for your mutual benefit, you must practice cooperation. The social revolution means much more than the reorganization of conditions only: it means the establishment of new human values and social relationships, a changed attitude of man to man, as of one free and independent to his equal; it means a different spirit in individual and collective life, and that spirit cannot be born overnight. It is a spirit to be cultivated, to be nurtured and reared, as the most delicate flower it is, for indeed it is the flower of a new and beautiful existence.”
– Alexander Berkman (Born November 21, 1870)
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“A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise… Because that is how life is — full of surprises.
There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God — a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.
We must believe in free will — we have no choice.
The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants.”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer (Born November 21, 1902)
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“Fame is something which must be won; honor is something which must not be lost.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
“I’ve always thought people write because they are not living properly.”
– Tom Stoppard
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”
– Dr. Carl Sagan
“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts…
This above all — to thine own self be true;
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Time’s glory is to command contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.”
– William Shakespeare
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hamlet
“I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
We live in a troubled world, and the United States and China, as two great nations, share a special responsibility to help reduce the risks of war. We both agree that there can be only one sane policy to preserve our precious civilization in this modern age: A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. And no matter how great the obstacles may seem, we must never stop our efforts to reduce the weapons of war. We must never stop at all until we see the day when nuclear arms have been banished from the face of this Earth.”
– Ronald Reagan
“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
It’s wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth.
You are a miracle, and everything you touch could be a miracle.
Your true home is in the here and the now. It is not limited by time, space, nationality, or race.
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind.
Peace is every step.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Y E S
Give wings to things around you so they can fly.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
I trust in the human wisdom. We are incredibly intelligent beings. So we might know something without thinking that we know.
Don’t ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you’ve spent a lot of time with it.”
– Yoko Ono
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A Massive Star in NGC 6357
Credit:
NASA,
ESA and
J. M. Apellániz (IAA, Spain)
Explanation:
For reasons unknown, NGC 6357 is forming some of the most massive stars ever discovered.
One such massive star, near the center of
NGC 6357, is
framed above carving out its own
interstellar castle with its energetic light from surrounding gas and dust.
In the greater nebula,
the intricate patterns are caused by
complex interactions between
interstellar winds,
radiation pressures,
magnetic fields, and
gravity.
The overall glow of the nebula results from the
emission of light from
ionized
hydrogen gas.
Near the more obvious
Cat’s Paw nebula,
NGC 6357 houses the open star cluster
Pismis 24,
home to many of these tremendously bright and blue stars.
The central part of
NGC 6357 shown spans about 10 light years
and lies about 8,000
light years away toward the constellation of the
Scorpion.
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