"Without stones there is no arch"

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Source : "Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, 1972.

Marco Polo

#Historical Quotes #Arches Quotes #Stones Quotes

“I don't wear anything in bed. But I'm not ready for a nude scene quite yet.”
“you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.”
“If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.”
“Normal relations, never. We should never forget what has happened to the people in Cuba for forty years. All baseball cares about is getting players out of Cuba. It doesn't care about the suffering, just money. The Orioles shouldn't have gone to Cuba. This is a free county, but that's the way I feel.”
“I love advertising because I love lying.”
“If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro”
“If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured, that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution, will be most liable to perish, while, on the other hand, those organised bodies, which most approach to the best constitution for the present circumstances, will be best adapted to continue, in preserving themselves and multiplying the individuals of their race.”

Source : "An Investigation into the Principles of Knowledge". Book by James Hutton, 1794.
“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”

Source : Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, Langston Hughes (1996). “Not So Simple: The "Simple" Stories by Langston Hughes”, p.35, University of Missouri Press

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