long photo 20 | water
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation … even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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| — | Leonardo da Vinci [1452 - 1519] |
The spread of civilization may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
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| — | Nikola Tesla [1856 - 1943] |
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
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| — | e. e. cummings [1894 - 1962] |
Whenever I’m with you
Something inside starts burning
And my hearts filled with fire
Something’s got me amazed
Don’t know what to do
My head’s in a haze
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| — | Heatwave by Martha and the Vandellas |
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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| — | Walter Benjamin [1892 - 1940] |
