"Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself."

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Source : Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1995). “What is Life?”, p.14, Univ of California Press

Lynn Margulis

#Verbs Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.”

Source : James H. Cone (1970). “A Black Theology of Liberation”, p.74, Orbis Books
“How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, Is that fine sense which men call Courtesy! Wholesome as air and genial as the light, Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, And gives its owner passport round the globe.”
“There is nothing that art cannot express.”
“We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that each and every one of us will have problems.”
“Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.”
“The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.”

Source : "Kennedy not ruling out his return", news.bbc.co.uk. June 22, 2006.
“If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.”
“Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.”

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