"The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears."

-- Carl Maria von Weber

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“Don't ask me how to burn down a building. As me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. that is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.”

Source : "Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness". Book by Dean Kuipers, 2009.
“Itâ€™s not a playoff game, itâ€™s like the Super Bowl. â€¦ This is going to be a blood bath out there. I know theyâ€™re going to be ready to play. This is going to be a physical game. Iâ€™m sure that Iâ€™m going to be ready and I know my boys are going to be ready to back it up.”
“A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.”
“Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king.”
“The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.”
“We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?”
“Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.”

Source : Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins
“You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.”

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