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Noam Chomsky Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
Space

"If there are dollars to be made, you destroy the environment. The reason is elementary. The people who are going to be harmed by this are your grandchildren and they don't have any votes in the market. Their interests are worth zero. Anybody that pays attention to their grandchildren's interests is being irrational. Because what you're supposed to do is maximize your own interests, measured by wealth, right now. Nothing else matters. So destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies, but within a framework of institutional lunacy."

Space Zero Grandchildren
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Jerry Garcia Musician
Space

"You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax."

Thinking Space Musical
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Paulo Coelho Writer
Space

"When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new."

Trying Space Loss
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Andy Murray Tennis Player
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"I had to pay an incredible amount to get insured on it and, after a couple of weeks of driving it around, I realised it wasn't quite my style. I'm not flash by any means but a bright red Ferrari is a definite head-turner and I hated that. It was also incredibly impractical, particularly when it came to finding space for a friend or for my tennis bag, so I decided to sell it after a few months."

Mean Space Couple
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Space

"As sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought."

Dream Space Tree
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Space

"The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space."

Real Space Dance
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Marcel Proust Novelist
Space

"Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance."

Art Space Fire
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George Santayana Philosopher, Poet
Space

"Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope."

Space Heaven God
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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
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"Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience will have been rendered: not a mere statement for the information or persuasion of a brain, but an effective communication across the void of space and time from one center of consciousness to another."

Artist Space Communication
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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
Space

"Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors."

Space Overcoming Tiny
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Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author
Space

"Indeed, when God's glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or too familiar that it cannot contain and renew by its touch. Every time I recognize the glory of God in me and give it space to manifest itself to me, all that is human can be brought there and nothing will be the same again."

Giving Space Strange
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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer
Space

"There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space."

Spiritual Pain Space
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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
Space

"The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it then when you start interfering.""

Voice Space Zoos
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John Keats Poet
Space

"Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings."

Space Wings Yellow
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Michel Foucault Philosopher, Social Theorist
Space

"In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears."

Writing Space Creating
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Michelangelo Antonioni Film Director, Screenwriter
Space

"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."

Character Space Surfing
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