contains on average some one hundred billion stars. If a star were a grain of salt, you could fit all the stars visible to the naked eye on a teaspoon, but all the stars in the universe would fill a ball more than eight miles wide.

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Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

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Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe. - Heraclitus

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Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.- Frank Zappa

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After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all? ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it. ― Sebastian Faulks

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You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago. ― Alan Watts

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The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

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