"A man on a hiking trip through the Blue Ridge Mountains came to the top of a hill and saw, just below the crest, a small log cabin. Its aged owner was sitting in front of the door, smoking a corncob pipe, and when the traveler drew close enough he asked the old man patronizingly: "Lived here all your life?" "Nope," the old mountaineer replied patiently. "Not yet.""

-- James Keller

#Life Quotes #Men Quotes #Blue Quotes

“Students from the same teacher will differ in their skills”
“Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.”
“The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the last man and the last round for FÃ¼hrer and Fatherland unto the end.”

Source : "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William Lawrence Shirer, (p. 931), 1990.
“Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it.”

Source : Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, Harvard University Press
“Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.”
“I visited Eduardo Miura’s ranch in Seville where he raised bulls for bullfighting, and I was so impressed that by the time I got home I had already selected my future emblem.”
“'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.”

Source : "Bad press: a new play gives journalists a voice" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2012.
“The earlier you learn to masturbate, the better your sex life will be.”

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