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		Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lao Tzu 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hans Jonas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bassem Youssef 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zadie Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		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 am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Valentina Tereshkova 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pablo Picasso 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				R. Buckminster Fuller 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For reporting a scientific finding, I was called a 'conspiracy theorist.' Only in America is scientific analysis seen as conspiracy theory and government lies as truth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Paul Craig Roberts 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Why was I worried? Because if, in everyday life, I was so embarrassed, so cautious, that I scarcely breathed, the diary produced in me a craving for truth. I thought that when one writes, it makes no sense to be contained, to censor oneself, and as a result I wrote mostly—maybe only—about what I would have preferred to be silent about, resorting among other things to a vocabulary that I would never have dared to use in speaking. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Elena Ferrante 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alfred Nobel 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I still got the nasty in me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Christina Aguilera 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lao Tzu