"Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and travels centuries away from this place."

-- Yxta Maya Murray

#Morning Quotes #Coffee Quotes #Book Quotes

“Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.”
“And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.”
“Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.”

Source : Source: on.mtv.com
“I don't even like holding them. Whenever I hold a gun, I want to get it out of my hand as quick as possible.”
“We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.”

Source : George Perkins Marsh, Stephen C. Trombulak (2001). “So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh”, p.186, UPNE
“If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.”
“I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.”

Source : "Oceans apart". Interview with Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.
“Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.”

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