"Without any cant, does not Providence provide wonderfully for us?"

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Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1879). “Arabia, Egypt, India: A Narrative of Travel”, London, W. Mullan and son

Isabel Burton

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“This is something I've always wanted to do- to skate through a part of New York City that thousands of people ride through every week, feeling the energy of one of the original stomping grounds of street skating.”
“A thinker reverses roles and sees the perspectives of others.”
“Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mrs. Marcus". "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World", www.imdb.com. 1963.
“My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.”
“A fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work, for creative inquiry, for free creation without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions. A decent society should maximize the possibilities for this fundamental human characteristic to be realized.”
“The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.”
“They had nothing in common but the English language.”
“There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...”

Source : James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.35, Vintage

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