"What Flaubert refers to as the â€œmÃ©lancholies du voyageâ€ is like the sadness I feel as one season departs and another arrives."

-- Gretel Ehrlich

#Sadness Quotes #Voyages Quotes #Feels Quotes

“Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.”
“You've got to learn the footwork, the positioning, how to box out, how to pass, how to shoot your free throws. All these things are necessary, not to be the No. 1 player in the world, but maybe you can play against him.”
“Some of us are senders and some are goers. Neither is more important than the other. Neither is possible without the other.”
“Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.”

Source : August Weismann, Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton, Selmar Schönland, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley (1889). “Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems”
“Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.”
“I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a singing and dancing European intellectual.”
“Right now I'm in 'Twilight' and I go around to signings and there are people screaming and crying, and it's so surreal. I know that when this is over in a month or two and whenever 'Twilight''s no longer relevant, that doesn't live on for me. It's because of this. It's not very often that this happens for people.”
“Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.”

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