"The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze."

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Livy

#Wind Quotes #Sea Quotes #Breeze Quotes

“We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.”
“But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may philosophize when preparing dinner.' And I often say, when observing these trivial details: had Aristotle prepared vituals [sic], he would have written more.”
“All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.”

Source : Clive James (2009). “May Week Was In June”, p.204, Pan Macmillan
“As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.”
“I'm still happy, I like this life.”
“There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.”
“I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.”
“Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.”

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