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• It is unlikely that we will ever see a star being born. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young, but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event. Stars are born inside thick clouds of dust and gas in the spiral arms of the galaxy, so thick that visible light cannot penetrate them.

  Heinz Pagels

  Stars, Science, Animal

  Heinz R. Pagels (1985). “Perfect symmetry: the search for the beginning of time”, Simon & Schuster

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• The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God absent from it; the loftiest seraph is but a spark from the eternal fire, which is God. Sharers in one life all form one brotherhood. The immanence of God, the solidarity of man, such are the basic truths of theosophy.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Fire, Brotherhood

  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Annie Wood Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater (1925). “To Members of the Theosophical Society: Being a Selection of Instructive Articles and Teachings”

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• As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Real, Men, Preparation

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2015). “The Marrow of Tradition”, p.222, Xist Publishing

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• You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

  Queen Latifah

  Pain, Moving, Trying

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• Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these grains also move with great velocities, they act at a distance one upon another, but this action is so slight at great distances that their trajectories are rectilineal; nevertheless, from time to time, two of them may come near enough together to be deviated from their course, like a comet that passed too close to Jupiter. In a word, in the eyes of a giant, to whom our Suns were what our atoms are to us, the Milky Way would only look like a bubble of gas.

  Henri Poincare

  Stars, Distance, Moving

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.905, Modern Library

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• Faith. Trust. and Pixie Dust.

  Walt Disney

  Tinkerbell, Pixies, Faith Trust

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• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Ambition

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Friendship, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  Salman Rushdie

  Names, Sound, Use

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  God, Running, Children

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.576, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.

  George C. Wallace

  Tyrants, Feet, Forever

  First Inaugural Speech as Governor of Alabama, January 1963.

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• An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

  William Bernbach

  Motivational, Positive, Creativity

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• Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

  Art Blakey

  Music, Memorable, Jazz And Life

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• Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

  Samuel Ullman

  Heart, Self, Worry

  "Youth". Essay by Samuel Ullman, www.beliefnet.com. 1920.

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• Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Life, Names, Literature

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• That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

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• According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

  Grazia Deledda

  Christmas, Body, Legends

  "1,500 Greetings And Quotes For All Occasions. Sayings, Phrases And Best Wishes For Birthday, Mother's Day, Easter, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Wedding, Thanksgiving And More". Book by Emmie Marina Brunswick, April 30, 2014.

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• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  Barnabe Barnes

  Men, World, Slave

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• I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust

  Artie Lange

  Angel, Yankees, Yankee Stadium

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• Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.

  Adela Florence Nicolson

  Weed, Marijuana, Doors

  'The Garden of Kama' (1901) 'Less than the Dust'

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• Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Art, Civilization, Long

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• You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Texas, Small Business, Enron

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.

  Richard P. Bland

  Party, Names, Political

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• There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

  Alice Hamilton

  Intelligent, Air, Principles

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.98, Read Books Ltd

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• Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Flames, Burning

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