"I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute."

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Jon Krakauer

#People Quotes #Promise Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“Sloths have no real natural body odor, which helps hide and protect them from potential predators. As a result, their natural smell is a projection of whatever you're feeling at the moment you encounter one.”

Source : Source: www.buzzfeed.com
“And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such wondrous treasures-an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment, where all may drink, and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, and a keener perception of the beauty of our existence. For those whose days are all consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolities of fashion, unobservant of nature's loveliness, are unconscious of the harmony of creation”

Source : Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”
“Fischer is an American Chess tragedy on par with Morphy and Pillsbury”
“Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.”

Source : Lajos Kossuth, Francis William Newman (1854). “Select Speeches of Kossuth”, p.22
“Somebody told me ... that he overheard a banker's wife saying her husband was working for free this year-this was 2009. What she meant was, he was just getting his basic salary of Â£300,000, and no bonus. Their sense of entitlement is, in the proper sense of the word, psychotic.”
“Do you know what would keep me in Brazil, no matter what happened? Sex!”
“We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.”
“The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself”

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