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Loren Eiseley has 74 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other…
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Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like…
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[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders…
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After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create…
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It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.
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The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
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Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
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The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within…
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Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of…
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You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to…
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Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange…
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Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law,…
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
— Teresa of Avila
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Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years…
— David Bowie
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I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried…
— Jane Campion
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Running water never grows stale.
— Bruce Lee
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My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star…
— Evangeline Lilly
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Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again,…
— Edward Abbey
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Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics.…
— Aulus Cornelius Celsus
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The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this…
— Marc Andreessen
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One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.
— Matt Goldman
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The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.
— Dogen
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Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown…
— Stuart Dybek
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Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.
— danah boyd
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