"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing."

-- R. D. Laing

#Change Quotes #Historical Quotes #Aging Quotes

“The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive the light, there must have been light to enter it.”

Source : "Geological Sketches". Book by Louis Agassiz, ch. 2 (pp. 31 - 32), 1870.
“Everybody in Washington wants one of these jobs studies this book. It`s called the Plum Book because the people in Washington turn the pages looking for the plum that they want, the job that they want.”
“Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.”

Source : "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.
“We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.”
“Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more.”
“All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.”

Source : Marjorie M. Liu (2009). “Darkness Calls”, p.210, Penguin
“Don't fight them anymore.I'm going to go with them." "No. I won't let them take you." "You have to," I begged. He was breathing hard, every part of him braced and ready to attack. We locked gazes, and a thousand messages seemed to flow between us as the old electricity crackled in the air.”
“The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home.”

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