"For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer."

-- Tim Winton

#Nature Quotes #Sea Quotes #Relief Quotes

“The proper use of comments is to compensate for our failure to express ourself in code.”
“One thing I believe that's a key to success is celebrate your surroundings.”
“Regardless of what the tour pros think, golf is a rich and varied game, and what all of us awkward fools do on weekends is what golf is truly all about.”
“Every new skill you learn, every adventure you go on, every new thing you try, it only makes you a better artist.”
“Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage - the world's millions of refugees and displaced.”
“Invite Tranquility The sea,-- Something to look at When we are angry.”
“The good things at the U.S. health care system are that we have a well-trained labor force, particularly physicians; I don't think any nation trains doctors better. We have the latest technology, simply because we throw so much money at it. We are really technology-hungry in this country. That's a good thing. Our system more treats patients like customers, which is a good thing; that it's very customer-friendly. And it's very innovative, both in the products we use, in the techniques we use and the organizational structures we use. Those are all very good things, highly competitive.”
“Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It was only the vast fatigue which was experienced by the generation on which the multitudes of discoveries and innovations burst abruptly, imposing on it organic exigencies greatly surpassing its strength, which created favourable conditions under which these maladies could gain ground enormously, and become a danger to civilization.”

Source : Max Simon Nordau (1895). “Degeneration”, London, Heinemann

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