"Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped."

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Source : Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.250, Columbia University Press

Eric Chaisson

#Firsts Quotes #What Is Life Quotes

“My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.”
“when you change what you believe, you change what you do...”

Source : Spencer Johnson (1998). “Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life”, p.32, Penguin
“How can the public choose sides, when one side has nothing left to surrender? Not until the right is prepared to lose on principles will we ever hope to win this culture war on which the survival of our nation depends.”
“American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror.”
“But it was like a dance across a field strewn with razors, and I bled with every step I took.”
“He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what's right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.”
“We are inducting Connor "The Crusher" Michalek into the WWE Hall of Fame with the Warrior Award, and it's going to be really hard with the waves of emotion that will set in. I will have to share with everyone what he meant to me and also deal with how sad his story is. He was so inspiring to people, it is going to be really emotional for me. It should be very special!”

Source : Source: hollywoodlife.com
“The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.”

Source : Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.55, Penguin

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