"Sanctuaries are magical places - dare I say holy?"

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Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#Sanctuary Quotes #Holy Quotes #Dare Quotes

“Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.”
“A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotiveâ€”turn them inward and you'd have a crash.”
“I'm sure, to many people, my life is not that exciting, but to me every day is an adventure.”
“Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.”

Source : Ronald Wright (1986). “On Fiji Islands”, New York, N.Y. : Viking
“We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason”
“But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.19, Open Road Media
“Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.”

Source : "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". Interview with Henry Petroski, appel.nasa.gov. July 20, 2006.
“The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.”

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