"While we are born with curiosity and wonder and our early years full of the adventure they bring, I know such inherent joys are often lost. I also know that, being deep within us, their latent glow can be fanned to flame again by awareness and an open mind."

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Source : Sigurd F Olson (2012). “LISTENING POINT”, p.10, Knopf

Sigurd F. Olson

#Adventure Quotes #Flames Quotes #Years Quotes

“Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much of the barbarity with which man has treated man; and the deep division imagined by the Church between the human being, with his immortal soul, and the soulless "beasts", has been responsible for an incalculable sum of cruelty.”

Source : "Seventy Years Among Savages". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1921.
“In a speech today, President Obama said that Michelle Obama is very strong and talented and she frequently tells him that he is wrong. As a result, Michelle Obama is now the Republican front-runner for 2016.”
“Curiosity killed the cat,â€ Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? â€œPeople always forget the rest of the saying,â€ she complained. â€œâ€˜And satisfaction brought it back.”
“I kicked down doors to show that Hiphop has matured. And it may be a little controversial.”
“The workman still is greater than his work.”
“There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.”

Source : Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”
“I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.”
“I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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