"Men go and come, but earth abides."

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Source : George R. Stewart (1993). “Earth Abides”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

George R. Stewart

#Men Quotes #Earth Quotes

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
“Sachin is the greatest player I have seen. I consider it an honour to have rubbed shoulders with him”
“As for me, I had to know exactly what the situation was in Dukla Pass. Moscow had demanded it.”

Source : "The Last Six Months: Russia's Final Battles with Hitler's Armies in World War II" by Sergeĭ Matveevich Shtemenko, (p. 312), 1977.
“Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.”

Source : Daniel Suarez (2009). “Daemon”, p.610, Penguin
“I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?”
“If it's something I feel I can do alright, I like being in those, and some that I think Schneider and Spade would be funnier at than me, I tell them to do it. I don't have any clue how we decide. There's this thing, this Click actually, one of my friends called me up, my partner told me about this idea that Steve Koren had. Steve Koren, by the way, the guy who wrote it with Mark O'Keefe, Steve Koren I've known since I was 22. He was a page at Saturday Night Live.”
“I really love newspapers. They are disposable. They are recyclable. They fall apart so easily. They are not like iPads or Kindles that can't be disposed of and end up on some third-world shore. And I love the heritage of them, the whole history of mass communication. Newspapers changed the world from being a really class based, feudal system to people being able to cheaply get information that informed them.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Every river appears to consist of a main trunk, fed from a variety of branches, each running in a valley proportional to its size, and all of them together forming a system of vallies, communicating with one another, and having such a nice adjustment of their declivities that none of them join the principal valley on too high or too low a level; a circumstance which would be infinitely improbable if each of these vallies were not the work of the stream that flows in it.”

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