"The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it."

-- Alan Lightman

#Discovery Quotes #Imagine Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.”
“It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.”

Source : "Angus and Julia Stone Synch Up". Interview with Olivia Fleming, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 31, 2014.
“When you trust and act on your intuition, you increase your self-esteem, build trust in yourself and experience a profound sense of security that no relationship or amount of money will ever give you.”
“Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.”
“The persona in my stories may be truer to my "real" self than any alleged objective, factual "I" that I could replicate for the purposes of storytelling.”
“Don't worry, it's very clear that the painting was done by a human, most likely a human with one eye removed and a feverent if incorrect understanding of design and anatomy.”
“The loss of any army is always caused by underestimating the enemy. Therefore gather information and watch the enemy carefully.”
“Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.”

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