"Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for."

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Ernest Hemingway

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“Come, come thou bleak December wind, And blow the dry leaves from the tree! Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death And take a Life that wearies me.”
“It's not the destination, It's the glory of the ride.”
“It will be the proudest moment of my life leading Liverpool out. I've dreamed of this day since I was a kid, kicking a ball against the wall in the street where I lived. What could be better than leading Liverpool out for the Champions League final? Only lifting the trophy. We need everyone, all 11 players who start and the subs, to be ready to give everything. We need that mentality, when everyone has to put everything on the line for Liverpool. That is what it will take to win. We have to make sure we don't have any regrets at the final whistle.”
“Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions of the God of Nature. No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved, and not feel that there is more in man than the mere breath of his body.”
“How many of my basic principles were upset by this change in my attitude toward the Christian Social movement! My views with regard to anti-Semitism thus succumbed to the passage of time, and this was my greatest transformation of all.”
“The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.”

Source : Larry Niven (2003). “Scatterbrain”, p.35, Macmillan
“Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.”

Source : Chet Raymo (2005). “Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God”, p.184, Cowley Publications
“The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy, and if energy be not expended the power to generate it is lost. This law shows itself in a thousand ways in the life of man. The arm which is not used becomes palsied. The wealth which comes by chance weakens and destroys. The good which is unused turns to evil. The charity which asks no effort cannot relieve the misery she creates.”

Source : David Starr Jordan (1983). “The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul”

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