Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

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“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

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“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

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“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

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“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

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“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

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“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

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“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

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“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

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“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
― Alexandre Dumas-fils

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“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss

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“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
― Seneca, Natural Questions

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“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Selected Essays

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“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

So true.

Of course it reminds me of the old joke;

When one door closes another one opens, otherwise it's a pretty good car