"A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either."

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Source : Ellis Peters (2014). “Dead Man's Ransom”, p.210, Head of Zeus

Ellis Peters

#Men Quotes #Faces Quotes #Be Prepared Quotes

“I'm not a follower of this or that religious leader. More wars are started because of religious leaders, and people are following and they don't know why... That is religiosity. That is what turns people into robots.”
“Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.”

Source : Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.378, Pan Macmillan
“Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.”
“It is self-evident that any and all paths must be open to a researcher during the actual course of his [or her] investigations.”
“It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something more than the handmaiden of the most powerful interests. It might be crazy to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our tradition for most of our history -- free culture. If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon.”
“What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.”
“Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.”
“The more attached we are to a vision of the future, the less present we are to what is actually trying to emerge here and now.”

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