It's possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things-- a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring-- with immense, even startling power. It is...
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Raymond Carver
Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such an authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens. Thus they come to be stamped as “necessities of thought”, “a priori givens”, etc. The path of scientific...
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Albert Einstein
Whether people see you as a shadow or as an invisible or stupid sort of thing, a time will come when that Image of yours will never be seen by commoners.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.
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Anonymous
Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.
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J. Aleksandr Wootton
More Quotes By Christa McAuliffe
Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
Reach for the stars.
If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.
Space is going to be commonplace.
NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.
