"The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day. Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding, and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours, life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length. It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."

-- Diane Ackerman

#Beautiful Quotes #Country Quotes #Lying Quotes

“There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.”
“I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.”

Source : Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press
“To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.”
“Futurism is almost like a vaccination. You inject a little bit of a denatured pathogen to prepare your body in case you encounter it for real.”
“You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity”
“I don't mind people not liking me as long as there's mutual respect.”

Source : Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. July 1, 2008.
“And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right, I'm going to learn how to do this because then I can understand that part.”
“Simply put, the direct power over the money supply is the indirect power over the people.”

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