"An expert is anyone who can already do what we want to do."

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Source : Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

Susan Collins

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“Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly.”
“I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.”

Source : 'The Compleat Angler' (1653) pt. 1, ch. 18
“There is nothing more energizing than inhaling the tang of wilderness, loamy after rain, pungent with the richness of earth shuddering with life, or taking in the brisk dry cleanness of winter.”

Source : Anthony Lawrence, Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2009). “The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants”, p.14, Pan Macmillan
“Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.”

Source : John F. MacArthur (2012). “Moments of Truth: Unleashing God's Word One Day at a Time”, p.328, Thomas Nelson Inc
“This can't last. This misery can't last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long”

Source : "Fictional character: Laura Jesson". "Brief Encounter", www.imdb.com. 1945.
“If I have a last wish, I want to remember you. In an aimless life, to not even have those memories would be hell.”
“Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.”
“The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.”

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