Placental Lake Quotes & Sayings

Whatever you do in life, yoga shows you how to do it better. — Chuck Miller

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world! — Emily Bronte

A practical scheme is either a scheme that is already in existence or a scheme that could be carried out under existing conditions. — Oscar Wilde

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it. — Daniel Defoe

Personally, I am beginning to think death is mostly a matter of opinion. — Anne Fortier

For the observed difference in the shadow lengths, the distance between Alexandria and Syene had to be about seven degrees along the surface of the Earth; that is, if you imagine the sticks extending down to the center of the Earth, they would there intersect at an angle of seven degrees. Seven degrees is something like one-fiftieth of three hundred and sixty degrees, the full circumference of the Earth. Eratosthenes knew that the distance between Alexandria and Syene was approximately 800 kilometers, because he hired a man to pace it out. Eight hundred kilometers times 50 is 40,000 kilometers: so that must be the circumference of the Earth. — Carl Sagan

If, for example, you are miserly by nature, you will never go beyond a certain limit; only generous souls attain greatness. — Robert Greene

Self-assertion more often than not is vulgar, but a live and vulgar dog who keeps on barking is better than a dead lion, however dignified. — Louis MacNeice

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again — Willie Nelson