"Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing."

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Source : Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.114, Oxford University Press

Robert Falcon Scott

#Games Quotes #Light Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this country, of never submitting to the eye of the student, the figures on whose properties he is reasoning, but of drawing perspective representations of them upon a plane. ...I hope that I shall never be obliged to have recourse to a perspective drawing of any figure whose parts are not in the same plane.”
“Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.”
“The great powers have dominated the destiny of the Islamic countries for years and... installed the Zionist cancerous tumor in the heart of the Islamic world... Many of the problems facing the Muslim world are due to the existence of the Zionist regime.”

Source : "Israel a ‘Cancerous Tumor’ and Middle East’s Biggest Problem, Iranian Supreme Leader Says". www.timesofisrael.com. August 19, 2012.
“Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.”
“Godâ€™s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.”
“Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.”
“Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.”

Source : Chris McCubbin, David Ladyman, Sid Meier (1999). “Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri”
“When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.”

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