Dale Rex Coman Quotes

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Thoughts are timid things. They are frightened away by noise and they make none themselves. They flutter as silently as do owls on soft-edged wings.

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How dismal a universe it would be without the lights of the stars to probe its infinite blackness.

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Youth's insatiable curiosity is soon squelched and its breadth of view quickly forced into the furrow cut by the plow of convention.

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It takes some living to discover that the living itself is one's life, that life is not a goal to attain but a possession to relish.

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The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and to solve problems — these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.

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The planet Earth is a doomed ship being blown to inevitable disaster by the winds of universal dynamics, a miniscule sacrifice to the attainment of that inscrutable destiny held secret by the galaxies as they rush through the long darkness of space.

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My beloved planet has reminded me of my lowly and inconsequential place in her affairs, and I have no answer fit to offer, no excuses to give, no apologies I know how to phrase.

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Nature is neither harsh nor cruel nor sentimentally sweet and kind.

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Life is a cruise on which one is already embarked, not a port toward which to steer.

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A planet has no need to rush in the conduct of its affairs; its major schemes are plotted on a chart of eons.

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It does not take long to realize that, instead of clocks, the tides beat out the measure of the marsh and shore, and that all you see, plant and animal, must adapt to the periodic changes of water level.

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The rule is that no species prevails for long as measured in the units of eras by which our planet conducts its affairs.

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The tides are the heartbeat of the ocean, a pulse that can be felt all over the world.

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