"Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux."

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Simon Winchester

#Kansas Quotes #Earth Quotes #Flux Quotes

“The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: "Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor. Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone!. What is Silence? It is the Great Mystery! The Holy Silence is His voice!”
“Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and drinking. The money we waste on these things can be used for so many useful things. With the money we smoke away, we can buy an artificial leg for one who has lost a leg, pay for an eye operation for someone with a cataract, or buy a wheelchair for a polio victim. Or, if nothing else, we can buy some spiritual books for the local library.”
“That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.”
“I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.”
“What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.”

Source : Mary Hunter Austin (1994). “Cactus Thorn”, p.108, University of Nevada Press
“I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.”
“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”

Source : "Nightwood" by Djuna Barnes, (Ch. 6), 1936.
“Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.”

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