"Machines are the opium of the masses. If all the machines in England were thrown into the North Sea tomorrow, we should be back in the Garden of Eden. And the weather would probably improve."

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Source : Helen Cresswell (1987). “Ordinary Jack: Being the First Part of the Bagthorpe Saga”, Viking Childrens Books

Helen Cresswell

#Garden Quotes #Sea Quotes #Weather Quotes

“Trump realized that you had to drive a stake through the heart of this establishment and that millions of Americans do not feel represented by this sort of clique in Washington.”
“L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.”
“Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.”

Source : "Sandra Lee's Homemade Success". Interview with Nancy Jo Sales, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 13, 2011.
“Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.”
“Psychoanalysis was from the start, still is, and perhaps always will be a well-constituted church and a form of treatment based on a set of beliefs that only the very faithful could adhere to, i.e., those who believe in a security that amounts to being lost in the herd and defined in terms of common and external goals”
“I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.”

Source : Bear Grylls (2012). “Mud, Sweat, and Tears: The Autobiography”, p.36, Harper Collins
“Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.”
“If only these walls could talkâ€¦the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyoneâ€™s a liar.”

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