"Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one."

--

George Schaller

#Intellectual Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Desert Quotes

“If today were half as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was.”
“People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and that the Revolution needed American capital and technical aid.”

Source : Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee
“Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days”
“Before you can move in new directions, you must first let go of what's not working for you.”
“Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation....”
“It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.”
“The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.”

Source : Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.250, Vintage
“My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.”

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