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Ernest Thompson Seton

"For a man who is lost, the three greatest dangers in order of importance, are Fear, Cold, and Hunger. He may endure extreme hunger for a week, and extreme cold for a day, but extreme fear may undo him an hour. There is no way of guarding against this greatest danger except by assuring him that he is fortified against the other two."

Source : Ernest Thompson Seton (2016). “Woodcraft and Indian Lore: A Classic Guide from a Founding Father of the Boy Scouts of America”, p.278, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Ernest Thompson Seton

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“And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.”
“Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.”

Source : Ty Cobb, Al Stump (1961). “My life in baseball: the true record”
“Hitler bombed London into submission but in fact it created a sense of national solidarity.”
“There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not crawl, once”
“Sometimes, the most courageous act a human can do is to let somebody love them”
“Saddle your dreams before you ride em.”

Source : Mary Webb (2013). “Precious Bane”, p.23, Read Books Ltd
“If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.”
“In life, as on the stage, it's not who I am but what I do that's the measure of my worth and the secret of my success. All the rest is showiness, arrogance and conceit.”

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