"With each breath, you take into your body 10 sextillion atoms, and - owing to the wind's ceaseless circulation - over a year's time you have intimate relations with oxygen molecules exhaled by every person alive, as well as by everyone who ever lived."

-- Guy Murchie

#Oxygen Quotes #Years Quotes #Wind Quotes

“The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.”

Source : Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library
“Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.”
“keep fresh before me the moments of my high resolve.”
“Learn to have patience with people, just take it one step at a time in everything that you're doing and just invest time in the people that you're with ... have patience with them, even if they're not necessarily the easiest person to work with.”
“You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.”
“The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.”

Source : Josiah Strong (1885). “Our country: its possible future and its present crisis”
“Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.”
“Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.”

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