"This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries."

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Source : Isaac Thomas HECKER (1857). “Aspirations of nature”, p.11

Isaac Hecker

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“I'm first and foremost a biological explorer. I've looked all over the world for answers. Secondly, I'm an ecological designer, and by that I mean I attempt to work with constellations of nature to create technological forms. So I'm part engineer, part ecologist, part inventor, really.”

Source : Source: edition.cnn.com
“Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. I'm cold,' Snowden said. 'I'm cold.”
“Through the Australians, and the Japanese, too, I suppose, the Americans get their message across, but not in a heavy-handed way.”
“If you're not on the right path, get off it.”
“A song is communicating with people. Entertainment is a different area.”

Source : Ronnie Drew (2009). “Ronnie”, p.72, Penguin UK
“Men are men, vows are words, and words are wind.”

Source : George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.536, Bantam
“Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.”

Source : "Vilsack offered to resign over flap" by Roger Simon, www.politico.com. August 25, 2010.
“We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?”

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