"For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of the world would have to include a handaxe."

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Neil MacGregor

#Years Quotes #Everyday Quotes #World Quotes

“There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so youre kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When youre young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.”

Source : "Coffee break with Victoria Azarenka". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. August 28, 2012.
“There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.”
“Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.”
“Where wolves live, the forest is healthy”
“Every time that I've won a championship I've looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said 'You know what, I'm going to win it this year. I feel that way now.”
“World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields.”
“People are usually too busy counting the things they don't have. They notice how much more money their neighbor has, how much further ahead in spiritual unfoldment someone else is, and so on. But if we stop to count our blessings, to realize how much we do have and be grateful for it, then the heart is kept open to love and all the gifts that love brings, including the possibility of healing.”
“How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?”

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