"in the desert the detachment of life from all normal intercourse imparts a sense of gravity to every rencontre, and each touch with human beings is fraught with a significance lacking in the too hurried intercourse of ordinary everyday life. On the desert track, there is no such thing as a casual meeting ..."

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Source : Mildred Cable, Francesca French (1944). “The Gobi Desert”

Mildred Cable

#Track Quotes #Everyday Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.”
“I'm wearing pants, for f---'s sake. Lay off. I mean, it's not like I'm a f---ing lead miner. There are harder jobs in the world. But when people feel the freedom to create Tumblr accounts about my c---, I feel like that wasn't part of the deal ... But whatever. I guess it's better than being called out for the opposite.”

Source : "Jon Hamm tired of 'rude' jokes about his private parts" by Erin Coulehan, www.today.com. March 27, 2013.
“You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so youd better do some good while you are here.”
“I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.”
“My weirdness aside, if I am to find any friends, particularly a girlfriend, she will almost certainly have to be a human. My previous track record tends to suggest that of all species that exist on the planet, it has so far been exclusively humans to whom I find myself sexually attracted. This is a good thing legally if nothing else.”
“Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.”
“A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.”
“I'm an optimist by choice not by stupidity.”

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