"Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!"

-- Henry James

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #Lost Quotes

“There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.”
“Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached its ultimate achievements, and the stars themselves are scattered no more widely than the seed of Adam, even then we shall still be like ants crawling on the face of the Earth. The ants have covered the world, but have they conquered it Â— for what do their countless colonies know of it, or of each other?”
“Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.”
“Unless a man is prepared to ask a woman to be his wife, what right has he to claim her exclusive attention? Unless she has been asked to marry him, why would a sensible woman promise any man her exclusive attention? If, when the time has come for a commitment, he is not man enough to ask her to marry him, she should give him no reason to presume that she belongs to him.”
“So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.”
“All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.”

Source : Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”
“Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.”
“Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.”

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