"Imagine gazing at Earth or other space views."

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“People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.”

“Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.”

“We saw Earth’s breath.”

“The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.”

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“People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Why then dost thou choose to act in the same way? and why dost thou not leave these agitations which are foreign to nature, to those who cause them and those who are moved by them? And why art thou no…"

— Marcus Aurelius

Philosophy

#nature

"Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue."

— Thomas Keneally

Literature1935

#nature

"The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island."

— William Blackstone

Politics1723–1780

#nature

"We shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good, for one of two things: either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and a m…"

— Socrates

Literature-469–-398

#death