"Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day."

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Source : "Audubon's Story of His Youth".

John James Audubon

#School Quotes #Fields Quotes #Made Quotes

“The top two ways to destroy success are greed and impatience”
“Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable”
“Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.”

Source : Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy, 1831.
“the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.”
“There's a new and virulent cultural virus ripping through the world. . . . The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community, lower stress levels and outbreaks of pronoia - the sneaking feeling that someone is conspiring behind their backs to help them.”
“Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.”
“And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen”
“What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that philosophical treatise about having black beginnings and wanting love to compensate for that, wanting audiences and wanting attention - I say, "Au contraire." Completely opposite. I want the continuation of my mother's incredible love and attention to me.”

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