"The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself."

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Ella Maillart

#Confidence Quotes #Dream Quotes #Usual Quotes

“There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.”

Source : "Is Scientific Genius Extinct?" by Ross Pomeroy, bigthink.com.
“I'm in the woods so much I can tell you which plants are edible.”
“I've always been a deep thinker. Since I was a kid I was delving into the very depths of why we existed, often driving my parents crazy with unanswerable questions.”
“I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent. At that moment I hit my face against the player leaving a small bruise on my cheek and a strong pain in my teeth.”

Source : "Luis Suárez recognises no limits, either good or bad" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2014.
“It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook.”
“There are no hard times for good ideas.”
“Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones weâ€™re familiar with under King Abdullah.”
“If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.”

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