Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

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“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Princess Diana

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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Charles Spurgeon

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When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
William Arthur Ward

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

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“Some piously record 'In the beginning God', but I say 'In the beginning hydrogen'.”
― Harlow Shapley

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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― douglas adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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“Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.”
― Galileo Galilei, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo

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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee

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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee

It’s better to be interestingly wrong than tediously correct.
One of my teachers… I forget which one!

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“Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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“The planet had been slowed down - but as its mass was a sextillion times greater than the ship's, the change in its orbit was far too small to be detectable. The time had not yet come when Man could leave his mark upon the Solar System.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela

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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford

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Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
Jim Rohn

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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
Les Brown

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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius