"There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made."

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Willa Cather

#Country Quotes #Land Quotes #Made Quotes

“Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.”
“We as human beings like to be cocksure and certain.”
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little”
“Knowledge without action, is like having no knowledge at all!”
“We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.”

Source : "Fictional character: Major Motoko Kusanagi". "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence", www.imdb.com. 2004.
“I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick.”
“I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it; and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other meaning to you. Otherwise, you just put a Wiki page on camera. You can learn something, but it won't mean anything to you later on.”
“A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it's time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.”

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