"The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out from within them, except for the great sea, nor would the streams of rivers nor the rain-water in the sky exist but for the sea ; but the great sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers."

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Xenophanes

#Ocean Quotes #Rain Quotes #Blow Quotes

“July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden - first sweet corn on the cob dripping with butter, first tomatoes dead ripe and sunwarm, string beans, squash, crisp cucumbers. July can also be hard and shiny, brassy and sharp. Some days are like copper pennies in the sunlight.”
“Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.”
“The solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything,”
“Personally, people know themselves very poorly.”

Source : Ernst Mach, C. M. Williams (1897). “Contributions to the Analysis of the Sensations”
“Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.”

Source : Kathleen McDonald (2011). “How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.”
“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”

Source : "Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir".
“Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave them a single instruction: find out how we can best invest each education dollar so that it will do the most good. Your support and the support of every leading education group proves that they did their job better than I had hoped, because for the first time we have succeeded in finding goals which unite us rather than divide us.”

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