"The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication."

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Source : "Jacobson's Organ and The Remarkable Nature Of Smell" by Lyall Watson, www.nytimes.com. 2000.

Lyall Watson

#Communication Quotes #Air Quotes #Water Quotes

“Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership.”
“I think that's as far as you have to think, everything happens as a coincidence. It either happens or it doesn't. It's hard to map out a strategic plan by saying, 'If I do that, that's going to get me to the next level.' I think that's the wrong way to go into movies as an actor. It doesn't happen for me that way.”

Source : "AGENT ORANGE: Jason Statham Interview Part II: JOHN CARPENTER'S GHOSTS of MARS". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 28, 2001.
“The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the governed, powers that made oppression possible, powers that it began to exercise in 1774 in response to colonial denial of them. The Revolution came about not to overthrow tyranny, but to prevent it.”
“One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.”
“If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.”
“It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road.”
“If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves?”

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