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		Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Seneca the Younger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Salman Rushdie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Karel Capek 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Wayne Dyer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gabriela Isler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Galileo Galilei 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bat for Lashes 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		In the alternate universe of conservative talk radio, the killing of Bin Laden coincidentally happened on Barack Obama's watch. He had to be kicked dragging and screaming into authorizing it, and even then he made lots of mistakes. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jackson Katz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lana Del Rey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barry Lopez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lao Tzu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Abraham Lincoln 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ursula K. Le Guin