"All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil."

-- William Butler Yeats

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“Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.”
“You'll never know everything about the person you've chosen to marry. But the more information you have before entering into this commitment, the less chance you will be confronted with unfulfillable expectations.”
“If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and you feel that if only you could peer round the corner there might be an easy solution. There is nothing like having somebody else beside you, because he can usually peer round the corner.”

Source : Michael Atiyah (1988). “Collected Works: Michael Atiyah Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers; General Papers”, p.214, Oxford University Press
“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.”
“Cristiano reminds me of German tennis player Michael Stich. He was destined to make history, but then Boris Becker showed up. Cristiano is so fast, so strong, so incredible, but he has one problem: Leo Messi.”
“There will be three cats, kin of your kin, with the power of the stars in their paws. They will find a fourth, and the battle between light and dark will be won. A new leader will rise from the shadows of his death, and the clan will survive beyond thge memories of his memeries. This is how it has always been and alway will be.”
“Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.”
“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”

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