"'What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied."

-- Lewis Carroll

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“The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.”

Source : Bobby Jones (1960). “Golf is My Game”
“I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these stories and when you go to any museum in Holland, you will see these paintings of these 17th century sea beckels that the Dutch were in to, so it always intrigued me.”
“There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.”
“Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.”
“Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.”
“Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.195, Random House
“I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.”
“Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.”

Source : Brent Weeks (2012). “The Blinding Knife: Book 2 of Lightbringer”, p.75, Hachette UK

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