"Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it."

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Sepp Holzer

“All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.”
“On sorrow floats laughter.”

Source : "Dog Years". Book by Gunter Grass, www.theguardian.com. 1963.
“Different drinks have different metaphorical weight. Wine's heady, gin is poisonous, vodka's cold, and beer is plain boring. In real life, I'm a big fan of boxed white wine, much to the dismay of my more refined friends.”

Source : Source: www.redividerjournal.org
“Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.”
“The future belongs to the competent”
“Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.”

Source : IGN Interview, www.ign.com. December 1, 2003.
“I recognized it immediately the first time it happened - the cackle of the crone. It is the sound of a woman who is caught inside the mystery of the universe, in the irony of the angst, in the place ego abhors. Bliss.”
“I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,â€” not only as works of mechanism, but works of intelligence, not only as under laws, but under a Lawgiver, wise and good.”

Source : James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics”, p.147

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