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Quotes Do You Like

“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

― George Washington
 
“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”

― Albert Einstein
 
A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a lier at the bottom. And, It’s better to be tried by 12 then carried by 6.
 
RexAndMe said:
More of a speech than a quote, but it gives me the chills every time I watch Cosmos.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

(...)

-- Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
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I know what you're talking about, recently remastered version of that photo was published ;)
Earthrise is special too, but for me it have bit different meaning.

Going back to the topic of quotes, for me it would be
"A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing"
~ Note on the mirror in the movie "Birdman"
 
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
 
“When do you think people die? When they are shot through the heart by the bullet of a pistol? No. When they are ravaged by an incurable disease? No. When they drink a soup made from a poisonous mushroom!? No! It’s when… they are forgotten.”
 
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