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Us Quotes by Diane Ackerman
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories,…
- A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us…
- Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food,…
- To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the…
- Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually…
- In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we…
- Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color…
- Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite
- We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than…
- The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe,…
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- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- Dreams are what keep us going when real life lets us down. — Nishan Panwar