"The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place."

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Source : Arthur Ransome, Brian Hammett (2002). “Racundra's third cruise”, Wiley

Arthur Ransome

#Tired Quotes #Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.”
“It's still a load. If there was balance, the soldier boys would all be dead, and we'd be sitting pretty in the middle of the Drowned Cities, shipping marble and steel and copper and getting paid Red Chinese for every kilo. We'd be rich and they'd be dead, if there was such a thing as the Scavenge God, or his scales. And that goes double for the Deepwater priests. They're all full of it. Nothing balances out.”
“Okay, I'm in the tampon aisle, but I don't see it.”
“Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.”
“History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.”

Source : Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies (1986). “What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”
“Faith means that you have peace even when you dont have all the answers.”
“Ultimately love is everything.”
“My final conclusion after 40 years or more in this business is that the unofficial policy of the World Health Organization and the unofficial policy of the Save the Children's Fund and almost all those organizations is one of murder and genocide. They want to make it appear as if they are saving these kids, but in actual fact they don't”

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