"It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together."

-- Carl Sagan

#Peace Quotes #Fall Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.”
“Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn't. It's programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles abut against each other - deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway.”

Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.193, Head of Zeus
“The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.”
“I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.”

Source : "Troubles with Bird Dogs, and what to Do about Them: Training Experiences with Actual Dogs Under the Gun". Book by George Bird Evans, 1975.
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
“In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.”
“Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey.”
“His specialty was interrogation. Imagine it, gentlemen. Being strapped to a table so that you are entirely at the mercy of a monster such as this. A person who delights in your pain. A person to whom your screams are more delicious than a lover's whisper. A creature who knows how to keep you alive while he skillfully and meticulously deconstructs those things that define you as human?”

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