"The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving."

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Source : Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett (2013). “The Long War: (Long Earth 2)”, p.29, Random House

Stephen Baxter

#Long Quotes #Forgiving Quotes #Earth Quotes

“They say I look and sound ugly but I don't be carin.”
“There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.”
“But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and that the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in the necessity of living with the consequences of actions performed under the pressure of compulsions so obscure we do not and cannot understand them.”

Source : Hugh MacLennan (2009). “Watch that Ends the Night”, p.266, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
“The reason people have problems is that they have too much time to think.”
“Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees, ~~ all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related.”

Source : "A Language Older Than Words". Book by Derrick Jensen (p. 361), 2000.
“Football is easy; Iâ€™ve done this since I was a baby. To me, thatâ€™s not success. Success to me is being a world changerâ€¦I say football is my platform, not my purpose. How can I use my platform to fulfill my purpose? I want people to say that he fulfilled his purpose.”
“You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust”

Source : Song: You Make Beautiful Things, Album: Beautiful Things, 2010

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