"We all have our own personal Andes."

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Source : "Miracle In The Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home". Book by Nando Parrado, March 1, 2009.

Nando Parrado

“From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.”

Source : Tony Hillerman (1990). “Coyote waits”, Harpercollins
“The battle is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. A small, disciplined militia can not only hold out against a larger force, but drive it back, because what they're fighting for rightfully belongs to them.”
“Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an increase than a decrease in dependence.”

Source : Herman E. Daly (1991). “Steady-State Economics: Second Edition With New Essays”, p.125, Island Press
“I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.”
“True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.”
“The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.”
“If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as, 'Speak out. Be heard.' On the contrary, a breath of fresh air would be something like: 'Silence, think for at least 15 minutes, and then maybe speak out.”
“The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy.”

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