Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.

John Burroughs

LiveBusinessMoneyMenFightCity

It was as a mother that I needed my mother back, and I needed to conjure her anew and think about what she would have counselled and what she would have given.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

MotherThinkBackSheHerWould

I am a person who sticks to her word.

Steffi Graf

I AmPersonHerWhoWordSticks

If the universe is friendly, then it is indeed aware of us and works to help us. So there are no 'unfortunate accidents,' and everything that happens is orchestrated in an elaborate and complicated manner to be of benefit to us.

Srikumar Rao

UniverseHelpComplicatedEverything

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.

Robert Barclay

PowerMenNegativeWillFirstHold

As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started photographing, I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to enter other lives. I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.

Mary Ellen Mark

DreamCountryWayKnowingKidUsed

I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

MorningOccasionHad

As a Christian, I try to meditate or pray at least once a day, however briefly.

Jay Parini

DayChristianTryPrayOnceLeast

The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.

Jonathan Larson

PeaceWarCreationOpposite

That's the beautiful thing about mixed martial arts - and I'll tell people that - you have to think outside of the box.

Demetrious Johnson

BeautifulPeopleThinkYouOutside

I'm a big fan of Katt Williams, Jim Gaffigan, Louie CK, Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin, Rich Vas, Joey Vega and Matt Claybrooks.

Chris Rock

RichBigBig FanFanJimGriffin

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

Clarence Thomas

BlackThinkYouWhiteAngelsWere

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