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Hugh Miller

"It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life fruit in the thick of a wood; but where people are planted sparely it blossoms and matures, like apples on a standard or an espalier. It flourishes where the inn and lodging-house cannot exist."

Source : Hugh Miller, William Samuel Symonds (1858). “The Cruise of the Betsy; Or, a Summer Ramble Among the Fossilferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist; Or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossilferous Deposits of Scotland. [Edited by W. S. Symonds.]”, p.133

Hugh Miller

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“Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside.”
“The OGP is something that has brought the world community together.”
“A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you.”
“It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.”
“Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.”
“Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.”

Source : Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (2000). “The Tesla Papers”, p.30, Adventures Unlimited Press
“My characters always like themselves.”
“the Jewish press in the USA is solely responsible for our poor publicity.”

Source : "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 427, 1991.

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