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“We trust ourselves, far more than our ancestors did The root of our predicament lies in the simple fact that, though we remain a flawed and unstable species, plagued now as in the past by a thousan...”
“Ladies and gentleman," he said over the speakers, "welcome aboard this recently liberated Gulfstream V. If I could have your attention for just a few moments, I'd like to go over the safety feature...”
“Your memories are like the air I breathe. I don't have to keep checking on it every now and then to make sure whether I am doing it or not. It happens all by itself. But the moment I try to stop it...”
“your relationship with airthats key. You cant break up with air. Youre kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food. You cant be dropping food to hang with someone els...”
“I seem to be allergic to whatever that terrible smell is," said Gateman when the urge to sneeze had finally subsided."What terrible smell?""The air," said Gateman. "It smells...different.""That's c...”
“People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. Th...”
“A seed cannot grow in stone. It requires fertile soil & water. Compassion is the soil where life grows.”
“A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.”
“Life is always uncertain. No one knows what's in there. But now my life is everywhere, I would just like to breathe and sleep and get all the rest I could. I wake up five in the morning some days j...”
“What a strange thing it is to wake up to a milk-white overcast June morning! The sun is hidden by a thick cotton blanket of clouds, and the air is vapor-filled and hazy with a concentration of bloo...”
“He was a breath of fresh air after the heart wrenching storm that had engulfed me.”
“Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these.”
“A turmoil of winds rushed around him, spiraling up in to the air: he was thinking.”
“... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest nightamidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest ...”
“There are times when a man has need of the open heavens to compass his thoughts.”
“Born on the ground. Live in the air!”
“The air around you is filled with floating atoms, sliding down the Earth's spacetime curve. Atoms first assembled in the cores of long-dead stars. Atoms within you, everywhere, disintegrating in ra...”
“God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and the sun and the earth.”
“Gray.The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my every movement with their apathetic emptily blue-less eyes...”
“The light is amber, the air still; the daylilies have folded in on themselves. Soon, the hooded blue of dusk will fall, followed by the darkness of night and the sky writing of the stars, indeciphe...”
