George Devol famous quotes

I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it is pretty thick, or it would have been cracked many years ago, for I have been struck some terrible blows on my head with iron dray-pins, pokers, clubs, stone-coal, and bowlders, which would have split any man's skull wide open unless it was pretty thick. Doctors have often told me that my skull was nearly an inch in thickness over my forehead.
-- George Devol

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I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.

For in the voyage of the heart, there is a freight of hatred, and the wind of wrath blows shrill.

For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.

Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.

Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows. As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.

Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.

I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.

After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.'

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