"Geography blended with time equals destiny."

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Joseph Brodsky

#Destiny Quotes #Land Quotes #Geography Quotes

“The flesh is a worse enemy than the devil himself.”

Source : Isaac Ambrose (1769). “War with Devils: Ministration Of, and Communion with Angels”, p.65
“How strange it is to be anything at all”

Source : "Song: 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'". 1997.
“Chess players, people who travel all over the world, should be trusted or else not sent anywhere at all. Why are these four people (Antoshion and three other official 'minders') sent along to supervise us? With their meagre experience, all that thay did was interfere, more than ever before. And when they were needed, they weren't to be found ...”
“I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my picture is my stage, and men and women my players exhibited in a 'dumb' show.”
“He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.”
“We Germans are particularly aware that you can only be successful on the global market over the long term if you offer energy-efficient products that are, by nature, climate-friendly.”
“[ Tom Cruise] that kind of employee that's first to arrive, last to leave.”
“To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.”

Source : Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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