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“Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.”

Source : Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Fishing Virgin Sea”, p.154, Derrydale Press
“I don't want to fool people. If I wanted to do that, I would be working with virtual reality. I want to operate on the other level, the other end of the illusion spectrum. I want to create the worst possible illusions so it doesn't really fool people, but instead give people a measure of their own belief. It makes them aware of how much they need to be fooled in order to understand the world around them.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I mean, I eat really healthily.”
“Men no longer prefer blondes. Today gentlemen seem to prefer gentlemen.”
“The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1873). “The Poems of John Godfrey Saxe”, p.334
“Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.”
“The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian.”
“Mount Harris is of basaltic formation, but I could not observe any columnar regularity in it, although large blocks are exposed above the ground. The rock is extremely hard and sonorous.”

Source : Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.27

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