"The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth."

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Source : Ptolemy, Frank Egleston Robbins (1940). “Tetrabiblos”, Loeb Classical Library

Ptolemy

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“Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.”
“We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and gifted and divine. No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it.”
“Nothing else can fill better colors in one's life like the magnificent nature does”
“Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we?”
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”

Source : Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Why won't you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over you?”
“I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.”

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