"Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans."

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Source : Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Wislawa Szymborska

#Animal Quotes #Trying Quotes #Looks Quotes

“No matter what you're doing, live it. Make an experience. Have fun. Relate to someone. Take them in. Learn.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?”
“No matter what your product is, you are ultimately in the education business. Your customers need to be constantly educated about the many advantages of doing business with you, trained to use your products more effectively, and taught how to make never-ending improvement in their lives.”

Source : Robert G. Allen (2010). “Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online”, John Wiley & Sons
“Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.”
“Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.”
“Let's turn to the West, Let's turn up the music, Let's hope it's always as good as this”
“I like normal life, but I will go crazy if Im not working.”
“You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.”

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