Space Quotes - Page 16

• While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name.

  Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

  Funny, Sympathy, Laughter

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• Awakening is not a state but a process: an ethical way of life and commitment that enables human flourishing. As such, it is no longer the exclusive preserve of enlightened teachers or accomplished yogis. Likewise, nirvana-the stopping of craving-is not the goal of the path but its very source. For human flourishing first stirs in that clear, bright, empty space where neurotic self-centredness realizes that it has no ground at all to stand on. One is then freed to pour forth like sunlight.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Teacher, Commitment, Self

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• I'm looking for the binding energy of a look
  a crop of reflections to be reaped
  in a winter of thorn
  when icebergs of illusion will melt
  to be served at high tea
  and the spaces between the poles pinned down

  Nancy Peters

  Winter, Reflection, Tea

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• It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youths so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for the most remotely successful and glorious life after all, when those spaces shall be built over and the idea of the founder be realized. I trust that every New England boy will begin by laying out a Keene Street through his head, eight rods wide.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Distance, Ambition, Successful

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.932, e-artnow

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• A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Nomadic

  Marshall McLuhan (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy”, p.120, University of Toronto Press

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• To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol - a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in
  heart and cheerful of spirit.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Heart, Our Generation, Brave

  "The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge University Press, volume xxviii, 1998.

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• In abstract mathematics, of course operations alter those particular relations which are involved in the considerations of number and space, and the results of operations are those peculiar results which correspond to the nature of the subjects of operation.

  Ada Lovelace

  Numbers, Peculiar, Consideration

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• Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Book Of Tao, Tao

  "Tao Te Ching". Book by Laozi (Ch. 21), 4th century BC.

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• Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Nature, Unique, Where You Are

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• No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!

  Jose Rizal

  Ocean, Light, Ideas

  Letter to Fr. Pastells, April 04, 1893.

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• Interfacing street sculpture in public space creates an installation environment that turns regular space into art space. Signs and people and everything around a street sculpture-they all become part of it. A two-dimensional work, being confined to surfaces, doesn't have as much of a capacity.

  Mark Jenkins

  Art, Two, People

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• To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don't be afraid, you don't fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fall, Science, Void

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• I love collaborating outside of my space.

  Steve Aoki

  Love, My Space, Collaborating

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• I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter and science populariser. Of all these, I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Careers, Imagination, Underwater

  "Sir Arthur C. Clarke: 90th Birthday Reflections". Arthur C. Clarke's message delivered on his 90th birthday, www.youtube.com. 2007.

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• Instead of giving the effort the level of attention needed, the Air Force has wasted a year doing very little to end our reliance on Russian rocket engines, if the Air Force is unwilling to do what is necessary to meet the 2019 deadline, they are going to have to figure out how to meet our space launch needs without the RD-180 (Russian engine).

  John McCain

  Air, Years, Giving

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• Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Men, Sky, Choices

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• In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

  Sam Kinison

  Gay, Community, President

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• The Russians haven't been to the moon. You know why? Because they're space pussies... You really want to impress us? Bring us back our FLAG!

  Sam Kinison

  Moon, Pussy, Flags

  "Live from Hell", 1993.

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• On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of a world where respect for the validity of every tradition
  will issue in the creation and maintenance of a salubrious political space.

  Seamus Heaney

  Issues, Political, Maintenance

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.425, Macmillan

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• We're in space and space is the place!

  Randy Savage

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• The command is "Do no work." Just make space. Attend to what is around you. Learn that you don't have to DO to BE. accept the grace of doing nothing. Stay with it until you stop jerking and squirming.

  Dallas Willard

  Grace, Doing Nothing, Accepting

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• Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

  Chenjerai Hove

  Creativity, Desire, World

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• Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We do not even begin to know what to do with our radioactive wastes - whether to pump them into the earth, shoot them into outer space, or pour them into the oceans. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

  Alvin Toffler

  Ocean, Sea, Sky

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• And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Clouds, Flying, Leaving

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1998). “The Spirit of St. Louis”, p.302, Simon and Schuster

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• I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane. There is no space alotted for another pilot to tune the radios in the weather or make the calls to air traffic control centers or to help with the emergency procedures or to call off the airspeed down final approach. There is no one else to break the solitude of a long cross-country flight. There is no one else to make decisions.

  Richard Bach

  Country, Airplane, Men

  Richard Bach (2003). “Flying: The Aviation Trilogy”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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