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- Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.
- Henry Luce
- The emotions that good hunters need to cultivate are love and service more than courage. The sentiments of the hunt then become translated into art.
- James Swan, In Defense of Hunting
- There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.
- George Bird Grinnell
- My publisher told me that the number of readers of this book will be inversely proportional to the number of equations it contains.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - ), A Brief History of Time, 1988
- We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by man, but coaxed downstairs, a step at a time.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- I like life. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- The only way to be absolutely safe is never to try anything for the first time.
- Magnes Pyke
- If only I could stand on a street corner with my hat in my hand, and get people to throw their wasted time into it!
- Bernard Berenson (1865 - 1959)
- If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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