QUOTE A DAY - May 30, 2013

Greetings fellow quote lovers:

Just the quotes...

Best,
JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.
--Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

The ideal of the 17th century physicists was to be able to explain all physical reality in terms of the movement of atoms. This idea was extended by people like Descartes who saw the human body itself as nothing but a machine.

Chemists tried to study chemical reaction in this light and reduce chemistry to a form of physics, and biologists tried to reduce their science to simply chemical reactions and then finally to the movement of physical particles. The idea of reductionism which is innate to modern science.
--Seyyed Hossain Nasr, Professor and Author

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.
--Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray Love


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
--Andy Rooney

Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.
--James Morcan, Author of "The Ninth Orphan"


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.

ANSWER: Henry David Thoreau

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