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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpecte

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains. – Diane Ackerman

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. – Diane Ackerman

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Love
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There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses. – Diane Ackerman

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Senses
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I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman

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This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. – William Burroughs

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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. – Wendell Berry

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Nature

Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. – Marquis de Sade

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I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature. – David Attenborough

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She went over to the mirror…glancing at herself sidelong, as women do who think they have lost their beauty; repudiating a complete reflection. – Rosamond Lehman

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Ive just been growing right along. Its painful, but its a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. Its like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, youre looking so hot. – Mary J. Blige

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Some people feel that what were doing makes no sense, that its just a waste of money. But its working. – Calvin Klein

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You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances. – Ulrich Beck

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