"Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine."

-- Lois McMaster Bujold

#Climbing Quotes #Escaping Quotes #Pages Quotes

“My friends often tell me how very German I still am.”
“Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.”
“Life is too short to work so hard.”
“I am for the woods against the world, But are the woods for me?”

Source : 'The Kiss' (1931)
“Make notesâ€”Iâ€™ve lost more material than Iâ€™ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, itâ€™s not still up there in oneâ€™s brain. Itâ€™s in outer space and it ainâ€™t coming back.”
“It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way.”
“Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.”

Source : "Vidal Sassoon Was an Actual Person" by Michael Schulman, www.newyorker.com. May 10, 2012.
“Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a whole and what is good and desirable for an individual. That conflict can be found in global problems such as climate change, pollution, resource depletion, poverty, hunger, and overpopulation.”

Source : Martin Nowak, Roger Highfield (2012). “SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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