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		That dot is special. That dot is where LIFE lives. And I get it, it's biased of a living organism like me to think that life is important and special, but I don't care!
Because stars don't care, galaxies don't care, but people do. 
Undoubtedly we're something special because, as far as we can tell, we are unique.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charlie McDonnell 
			 
			
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		'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Simon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Gibbs 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ralph Waldo Emerson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My best friend is my husband. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samantha Bond 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dana Perino 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fidel Castro 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Gibbs 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've got no interest in football. My brother's a footballer, too, and I was dragged to the freezing pitch every week as a child. I don't see much glamour in it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abbey Clancy 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karl Radek 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Madeleine M. Kunin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edith Widder 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I give I give myself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walt Whitman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on or motivated to do so. Our system is quite good at producing reliable theorems that can be solidly backed up. It's just that the reliability does not primarily come from mathematicians formally checking formal arguments; it comes from mathematicians thinking carefully and critically about mathematical ideas. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				William Thurston 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You get older, you can't stay the same. You can't eat the same. You have to change things to get better. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jason Pierre-Paul 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not only by the other animals and by the delusive face of nature herself--by his incomparable talent for searching out and embracing what is false, and for overlooking and denying what is true. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				H. L. Mencken 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		“We would rather be sure of a correctly predicted negative outcome than face the realistic uncertainty of an unpredictable future even if it includes the possibility of great joy and success.” 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Brad Blanton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		That dot is special. That dot is where LIFE lives. And I get it, it's biased of a living organism like me to think that life is important and special, but I don't care!
Because stars don't care, galaxies don't care, but people do. 
Undoubtedly we're something special because, as far as we can tell, we are unique. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charlie McDonnell 
			 
			
				Chameleon Circuit