"Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent"

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Source : Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.235, Lulu.com

Tahir Shah

#Quality Quotes #Gears Quotes #Wells Quotes

“I am a terrible sleeper.”
“One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.”
“That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.”

Source : Replying to a politician who said 'I will support you as long as you are in the right', in Lord David Cecil 'Lord M' (1954) ch. 4
“It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.”
“Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.”

Source : Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1899). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages, and a Complete Alphabetical Index”
“At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface." "Crash." "Quite slowly." Face & Luke”
“Don't take yourself too seriously - learn to laugh.”
“The same love that made me laugh makes my cry.”

Source : Song: The Same Love That Made Me Laugh

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