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Krakauer Books Quotes By Mortimer Adler

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels. — Mortimer Adler

Krakauer Books Quotes By George Saunders

I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it doesn't come out the way they like, they still power through and even take energy from it. — George Saunders

Krakauer Books Quotes By Melissa Bank

When you're out" She advised, "try to appear captivated. — Melissa Bank

Krakauer Books Quotes By Nick Lane

Rather surprisingly, to anyone who is most familiar with textbook mitochondria, many simple single-celled eukaryotes have mitochondria that operate in the absence of oxygen. Instead of using oxygen to burn up food, these 'anaerobic' mitochondria use other simple compounds like nitrate or nitrite. In most other respects, they operate in a very similar fashion to our own mitochondria, and are unquestionably related. So the spectrum stretches from aerobic mitochondria like our own, which are dependent on oxygen, through 'anaerobic' mitochondria, which prefer to use other molecules like nitrates, to the hydrogenosomes, which work rather differently but are still related. — Nick Lane

Krakauer Books Quotes By George W. Bush

The North Korean regime remains one of the world's leading proliferator of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action. — George W. Bush

Krakauer Books Quotes By Rajneesh

God is creativity, not a Creator. — Rajneesh

Krakauer Books Quotes By Jon Krakauer

Books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants. — Jon Krakauer

Krakauer Books Quotes By Jon Krakauer

On July 2, McCandless finished reading Tolstoy's "Family Happiness", having marked several passages that moved him:
"He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others ...
I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps - what more can the heart of a man desire?" ... — Jon Krakauer

Krakauer Books Quotes By Ashwin Sanghi

I love fiction that sounds like fact. As a matter of fact, I also like fact that sounds like fiction. — Ashwin Sanghi

Krakauer Books Quotes By Ronald Reagan

Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American. — Ronald Reagan

Krakauer Books Quotes By Dean Karnazes

Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables. — Dean Karnazes

Krakauer Books Quotes By Haruki Murakami

The three of them left the noodle shop and went to a nearby love hotel. It was on the edge of town, on a street where love hotels alternated with gravestone dealers. — Haruki Murakami

Krakauer Books Quotes By Daniel Kolenda

You have been placed in the position you are in because you are a strategic part of a divine purpose that is much larger than yourself. — Daniel Kolenda

Krakauer Books Quotes By Boy George

I know that there are some people who don't like me, and that kind of surprises me more than the people who love me. — Boy George

Krakauer Books Quotes By Lao-Tzu

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. — Lao-Tzu