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We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with… — Aristotle
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we… — Annie Dillard
It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us… — Seneca the Younger
The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature… — Robert Bly
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned. — Gerald Brenan
Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. — Daniel Ellsberg
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we… — Wilferd Peterson
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate… — Wilfred Trotter
Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee with Jesus Christ… — Freeman Dyson
If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero? — Thomas Carlyle
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the edge, the certainty… — James Hillman
I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope… — Sylvia Earle
Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something… — Sylvia Earle
People ask: Why should I care about the ocean? Because the ocean is the cornerstone of earth's life support system, it shapes climate and weather.… — Sylvia Earle
It is important to remember that the ocean's resources are finite. The commitment these kids are making here today is a clear and compelling call… — Ted Danson
It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort, ... Beach cleanups are something… — Ted Danson
Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles on the beach while the… — Charles Sanders Peirce
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless… — John Maynard Keynes
It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we… — Francis Crick

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