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"I'll be honest, I'm having a really hard time getting through this book because...well, it smells. Like...leather, I think? A lot of people really love that smell, I know, but it's always made me feel sick to my stomach. So I have to hold the book really far away from my face, but then it's hard to see. I might have to request a different copy! :(" — Jan 17, 2017 05:53PM
"I'll be honest, I'm having a really hard time getting through this book because...well, it smells. Like...leather, I think? A lot of people really love that smell, I know, but it's always made me feel sick to my stomach. So I have to hold the book really far away from my face, but then it's hard to see. I might have to request a different copy! :(" — Jan 17, 2017 05:53PM
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“If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet.”
― Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
― Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn’t fit. And often that is quite a lot.”
― Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
― Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen
― Roald Amundsen
“Annapurna, to which we had gone emptyhanded, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our days. With this realization we turn the page: a new life begins.
There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.”
― Maurice Herzog, Annapurna
There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.”
― Maurice Herzog, Annapurna
“We are lucky to live in an age in which we are still making discoveries. ”
― Richard Feynman
― Richard Feynman
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