Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

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“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” —Alice Walker (June 1992)

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“Man is the only animal that blushes—or needs to.” —Mark Twain (November 1933)

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“No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.”—Will Durant (January 1941)

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“Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.” —Lincoln Steffens (February 1965)

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“There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing is certain.” —G.K. Chesterton (June 1926)

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“No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.”—Will Durant (January 1941)

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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”—Maya Angelou (August 2013)

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“My father gave me the best advice of my life. He said, ‘Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.’” —George Clooney (July 2006)

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“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin (August 1971)

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“Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead—that’s where your future lies.” —Ann Landers (August 1994)

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“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.” —Henry Ford (June 1922)

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“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” —Walter Lippmann (December 1941)

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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 (March 1963)

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“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength.” —A.J. Cronin (April 1955)

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“Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” — Nikki Giovanni (April 1998)

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You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. —Wayne Gretzky (October 1999)

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You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. —Wayne Gretzky (October 1999)

That's a good one, both in sports and life. The more failures you have, the greater your chance of success. Thomas Edison also said something similar.

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The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu

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I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan

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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius