"Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain……" — Diane Ackerman
"Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk."
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128 Quotes by Diane Ackerman
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of…
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at…
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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Success produces success, just as money produces money.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons…
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Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.
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Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind…
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Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every…
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I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the…
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's…
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Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of…
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own…
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Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.
— Clarence Darrow
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Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled…
— Ada Louise Huxtable
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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come…
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When ypu awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy…
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