"The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow."

-- Paul R. Ehrlich

#Giving Quotes #Decision Quotes #Sun Quotes

“In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.”
“Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine and human; and to change within stasis. Western man is virtually alone in wanting to make his God into a fortress and personal immortality into a bulwark against time.”
“The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.”
“I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.”

Source : Life Interview, January 1991.
“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.”
“Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.”

Source : James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.416
“Are we acting like a couple? I'm just trying to get it straight. Cause I'm over here convinced that it's too early for mistakes.”
“Overall the cost of living in Ho Chi Minh City is cheap and if you can stay away from Western restaurants and use just local products in your everyday life it's really cheap.”

Source : Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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