"Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root."

-- Loren Eiseley

#Life Quotes #Roots Quotes #Long Quotes

“When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.”
“Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one to do science better.”
“From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.”

Source : "Marketing Iraq: Why now?" by William Schneider, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2002.
“We must redefine the American Dream before we can rebuild the infrastructure on which it is based.”

Source : "What if?: collected writings 1986-2000".
“I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.”
“When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.”
“As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.”
“Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.”

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