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“With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.”

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John McPhee

John McPhee is an esteemed American writer, born on March 8, 1931. His works are renowned for their insightful exploration of the natural sciences and their clear, engaging narrative style. more

“On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists ... see the unbelievable swiftness with which one evolving species on the Earth has learned to reach into the dirt of some tropical island and fling 747s across the sky ... Seeing a race unaware of its own instantaneousness in time, they can reel off all the species that have come and gone, with emphasis on those that have specialized themselves to death.”

Thinking Humans Earth Race Gone Seeing Sky Lifetime Species Scales Evolve Islands Dirt Unbelievable Emphasis Fling Brevity Tropical Geologist Swiftness Geological Time Tropical Islands

Author:John McPhee

“The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.”

Men Littles Bigs Messages Music Is Ministry Upstairs Happiness And Love

Author:Al Green

“If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.”

Ifs Way Film Love Is Behinds Lord Cameras If I Could Living My Life

Author:Al Green

“Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.”

Thinking Want Believe Children Responsibility Teach Failing Teaching Stupid Succeed Not Stupid

Author:Al Green

“Theres a lot of churches that hide their dirty laundry under the rug, and I know about that from being in the church 27 years. Oh, yeah.”

Knows Years Church Yeah Dirty Laundry Dirty Laundry

Author:Al Green

“I did a whole concert in Atlanta with my fly open, and I had a black suit on and a white shirt. My white shirt was protruding from the fly.”

Whole Black White Suits Shirts Concerts Atlanta White Shirts

Author:Al Green

“Here's what I think I'm having trouble with: this is what happiness is. When I was a kid, I thought I'd just get happier and happier as I got older, and have more things to be happy about. I based this theory on observation of select adults. The problem with my results is that I couldn't tell the difference then between happy and fake-happy. Now I know you pretend to be just frigging ecstatic over everything, maybe because you're so glad it's not worse.”

Thinking Knows Problem Kids Differences Results Trouble Theory Adults Glad Observation Fake Select Ecstatic

Author:Emma Bull

“Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so.”

Ifs Feels Sometimes Sex Love Is Deals Party Without Love Transactions Love Is Like Sex Without Love

Book:War for the Oaks: A Novel

Source: War for the Oaks: A Novel

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