"Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom."

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Source : "Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie".

Rachel Corrie

#Smell Quotes #Apples Quotes #Sauce Quotes

“If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.”

Source : "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Ubiquity Interview, ubiquity.acm.org. July, 2000.
“The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.”
“I like being myself. Myself and nasty.”
“You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.”
“To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.”

Source : "The Political Economy Of Growth" by Paul A. Baran, Ch. 8, (p. 300), 1957.
“Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.”

Source : Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.21, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.”
“Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.”

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