"In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning."

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Source : "The Control of Nature". Book by John McPhee, 1989.

John McPhee

#War Quotes #Loss Quotes #Winning Quotes

“It was a tough. Sixteen games into my career, we had a coaching change. It was something I never experienced before, and something I had to go through a lot earlier in my career than I expected.”
“The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.”

Source : Steven Herrick (2004). “A Place Like this”, p.106, Simon and Schuster
“Once upon a time I owned a watermelon.”

Source : Irving Bacheller (2008). “The Light in the Clearing (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com
“If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she's the teacher!”

Source : Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.221, Open Road Media
“I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.”
“Every day of your life, you have information that enters your head, and that information informs your understanding of things, or shifts it, or changes it, or deepens it, or confuses you. Every day, every moment of every day - it's like this thing that happens.”
“When we consider the being and substance of that universe in which we are immutably set, we shall discover that neither we ourselves nor any substance doth suffer death. For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.”

Source : Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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