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H. Rider Haggard
"It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross; save a mountain and a a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or to lose it as Providence may order." --
Source : H. Rider Haggard (2012). “Allan Quatermain #1: King Solomon's Mines”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
H. Rider Haggard
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“A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.”
Source : "Interview: Clive Thompson's 'Smarter Than You Think'". Interview with Michael Agger, www.newyorker.com. October 29, 2013.
“The biggest challenge is probably some of the physicality. Some stuff you would never want to experience, in real life, but it's still such an adventure that it's worth all the scrapes and bruises and mud between the toes.”
Source : Source: collider.com
“I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.”
“I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.”
“I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.”
“I used to go play football matches in the morning, and Id go straight from me football game to a dance competition.”
“Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.”
Source : Hesketh Pearson (1971). “Beerbohm Tree; his life and laughter”
“Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."”