Mark Akenside Quotes
English - Poet November 9, 1721 - June 23, 1770
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.
Mark Akenside
Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
Mark Akenside
This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.
Mark Akenside
Such and so various are the tastes of men.
Mark Akenside
Benjamin Banneker Quotes
American - Scientist November 9, 1731 - October 9, 1806
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
Benjamin Banneker
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
Benjamin Banneker
Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker
I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.
Benjamin Banneker
Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.
Benjamin Banneker
Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
Benjamin Banneker
I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.
Benjamin Banneker
Marie Dressler Quotes
American - Actress November 9, 1869 - July 28, 1934
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
Marie Dressler
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
Marie Dressler
I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features.
Marie Dressler
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
Marie Dressler
In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.
Marie Dressler
To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.
Marie Dressler
By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.
Marie Dressler
No vice is so bad as advice.
Marie Dressler
We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
Marie Dressler
Anne Sexton Quotes
American - Poet November 9, 1928 - October 4, 1974
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
Anne Sexton
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
Anne Sexton
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
Anne Sexton
Live or die, but don't poison everything.
Anne Sexton
Death's in the good-bye.
Anne Sexton
I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.
Anne Sexton
Need is not quite belief.
Anne Sexton
In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton
Even without wars, life is dangerous.
Anne Sexton
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
Anne Sexton
Carl Sagan Quotes
American - Scientist November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Carl Sagan
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
Carl Sagan
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Carl Sagan
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan
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
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl Sagan
The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
Carl Sagan
No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.
Carl Sagan
We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Carl Sagan
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan
We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.
Carl Sagan
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.
Carl Sagan
We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.
Carl Sagan
In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
Carl Sagan
We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
Carl Sagan
Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.
Carl Sagan
We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
Carl Sagan
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
Carl Sagan
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan
It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.
Carl Sagan
You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
Carl Sagan
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan
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.
Carl Sagan
We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'
Carl Sagan
Today, we're still loaded down - and, to some extent, embarrassed - by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.
Carl Sagan
I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.
Carl Sagan
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan
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?
Carl Sagan
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
Carl Sagan
Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I've had a lot of experience with that.
Carl Sagan
The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.
Carl Sagan
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