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Dont fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Bruce Lee
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When told the reason for daylight saving time the old Indian said…
‘Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.’
‘Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.’
Summerdays, and the flat water meadows and the blue hills in the distance, and the willows up the backwater and the pools underneath like a kind of deep green glass. Summer evenings, the fish breaking the water, the nightjars hawking round your head, the smell of nightstocks and latakia. Dont mistake what Im talking about. Its not that Im trying to put across any of that poetry of childhood stuff. I know thats all baloney. Old Porteous (a friend of mine, a retired schoolmaster, Ill tell you about him later) is great on the poetry of childhood. Sometimes he reads me stuff about it out of books. Wordsworth. Lucy Gray. There was a time when meadow, grove, and all that. Needless to say hes got no kids of his own. The truth is that kids arent in any way poetic, theyre merely savage little animals, except that no animal is a quarter as selfish.
A boy isnt interested in meadows, groves, and so forth. He never looks at a landscape, doesnt give a damn for flowers, and unless they affect him in someway, such as being good to eat, he doesnt know one plant from another. Killing things - thats about as near to poetry as a boy gets. And yet all the while theres that peculiar intensity, the power of longing for things as you cant long when youre grown up, and the feeling that time stretches out and out in front of you and that whatever youre doing you could go on for ever.
George Orwell
Coming Up For Air
1939
A boy isnt interested in meadows, groves, and so forth. He never looks at a landscape, doesnt give a damn for flowers, and unless they affect him in someway, such as being good to eat, he doesnt know one plant from another. Killing things - thats about as near to poetry as a boy gets. And yet all the while theres that peculiar intensity, the power of longing for things as you cant long when youre grown up, and the feeling that time stretches out and out in front of you and that whatever youre doing you could go on for ever.
George Orwell
Coming Up For Air
1939
It always seems impossible, until it's done. Nelson Mandela
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who siad this quote? "We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful..."?
"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing."
Mother Theresa once said it, but it's unclear if she was the original author or if she was quoting an older source.
"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing."
Mother Theresa once said it, but it's unclear if she was the original author or if she was quoting an older source.
"People suck, and that's my contention. I can prove it on a scratch paper and pen. Give me a f***ing Etch-a-sketch, I'll do it in three minutes. The proof, the fact, the factorum. I'll show my work, case closed. I'm tired of this back-slapping "Aren't humanity neat?" bulls**t. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are." - Bill Hicks
Abraham Lincoln
"When you're up to your a$$ in alligators, it's hard to remember you came to drain the d***ed swamp." Unknown author
"If I had all the money I've spent on drink? I'd spend it on drink."
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, Viv Stanshall
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, Viv Stanshall
"Let us keep alive the spirit of adventure and of romance, and drink deep of the great cup that nature holds for our thirsting spirits and bodies."
Ellsworth Jaeger, "Wildwood Wisdom", 1945.
Ellsworth Jaeger, "Wildwood Wisdom", 1945.
"Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy s**t with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you, stick it up your bottom and pull the f***ing trigger 'til it goes 'click.'" - Jesus Quintana (Big Lebowski 1998)
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