"Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience."

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Source : Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

Clarence Day

#Inspiring Quotes #Beauty Quotes #Knowledge Quotes

“The world keeps turnin' It gets merry like a merry go 'round It gets cold like a frozen winter Well I change like summer fall But I know love is all in all Seeds we're always sowing The grace is always blowing We've just got to lift the sail And we're bound to hit the shore We'll finally calm this storm.”

Source : Song: The World Keeps Turning
“The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.”
“It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.”
“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.”
“There is some CO2-water vapor feedback. But it's not operating on a global scale. The modellers cannot accurately separate water vapour from the effects of clouds and rainfall.”
“Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.”

Source : Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.163, Xist Publishing
“He was born early. But he was born within a safe range of premature.”
“Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,â€ I say, taking another step forward. â€œYou never were a poet, were you, Todd?â€ he says.”

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