"Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses."

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Source : Bernd Heinrich (1994). “A Year in the Maine Woods”, Addison-Wesley Longman

Bernd Heinrich

#Long Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Excuse Quotes

“Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!”

Source : "TalkAsia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. August 6, 2004.
“An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the relations between a particular set of phenomena may be studied to the best advantage.”
“But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldnâ€™t want it that way. â€˜Whatâ€™s the sense?â€™ she would say with a smile both innocent and wise. â€˜What good is it, Laila jo?â€™ And so Laila has resigned herself to moving on. For her own sake, for Tariqâ€™s, for her childrenâ€™s. And for Mariam, who still visits Laila in her dreams, who is never more than a breath or two below her consciousness. Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows thatâ€™s all she can do. That and hope.”
“Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.”
“Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.”

Source : Gilbert Ryle (2015). “The Concept of Mind”, p.340, Lulu Press, Inc
“Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame.”
“My dad is such a good man, hard-working.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.
“Showed good business judgment, knowing that these continued lawsuits would be the untimely death of the gun industry.”

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