"Man is a creature adapted for life under circumstances which are very narrowly limited. A few degrees of temperature more or less, a slight variation in the composition of air, the precise suitability of food, makes all the difference between health and sickness; between life and death."

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Source : Sir Robert Stawell Ball (2016). “The Story of the Heavens”, p.125, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

Robert Stawell Ball

#Nature Quotes #Men Quotes #Air Quotes

“Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).”
“I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.”
“Blessed the man that hath visited `AkkÃ¡, and blessed he that hath visited the visitor of `AkkÃ¡. Blessed the one that hath drunk from the Spring of the Cow and washed in its waters, for the black-eyed damsels quaff the camphor in Paradise, which hath come from the Spring of the Cow, and from the Spring of Salvan (Siloam), and the Well of Zamzam. Well is it with him that hath drunk from these springs, and washed in their waters, for God hath forbidden the fire of hell to touch him and his body on the Day of Resurrection.”
“I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 20, 2011
“Rather than incorporating study into life, I've done the opposite. I've turned life into study. Where events take me? That's what I dive in to learn.”
“I hold Angela Merkel in high regard.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“One thing I've always thought about Morgana is that she's sort of a modern mind in a period body. She's not your usual warm princess, which is what drew me to her in the first place.”
“Autumn is full of leave-taking.”

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