"Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”
“As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.”

Source : George R. Stewart (1993). “Earth Abides”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.”
“An initial impulse of mine was to portray the way in which a city is impacted by war. But this is vague, no? After all, how do you actually have an entire city - or country, for that matter - be a character a reader can follow? One way is by making it smaller and personalizing it, by writing specifically about the citizens and the way they contend with the reality, even minutiae, especially minutiae, of their lives.”
“I think it's important to remember that to exercise you don't have to run a sprint.”
“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”
“There is not a big difference between life and taking pictures... You're in the middle of life, you're living, making love, eating, sleeping - and photography is part of it. And I don't say this because I'm being romantic. I say this because that's just the way it happens to be.”
“When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.”

Source : "Masha Gessen: Propaganda On Russia's Own Shrinking Public Acceptance Space To Talk Of Reality". Interview with Meara Sharma, www.guernicamag.com. February 3, 2014.

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