"Our tissues change as we live: the food we eat and the air we breathe become flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone, and the momentary elements of our flesh and bone pass out of our body every day with our excreta. We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves"

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Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.96, Da Capo Press

Norbert Wiener

#Air Quotes #Rivers Quotes #Water Quotes

“To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.”
“All of us knew that climbing was a sure way to stay poor, a lousy way to impress people and definitely no way to meet girls.”
“As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.”

Source : Ross Macdonald (2011). “The Zebra-Striped Hearse”, p.9, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.”

Source : "E! true Hollywood story : the real stories behind the glitter" by Lanford Beard, (p. 146), 2005.
“Faith is the new, the mysterious, the surprising. Nobody has ever been there before.”

Source : Carter Heyward (1976). “A Priest Forever”, HarperCollins Publishers
“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
“Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.”
“No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.”

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