"I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises."

-- Clyde Tombaugh

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“I love traveling and I love seeing new places and meeting new people, but at the same time, it takes a certain amount of emotional strength to gel with that, at least for me.”

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“I work 6:00 a.m. to midnight, seven days a week.”
“Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation and pleasure in the company of their 'inferiors'? They would need to shed their desperate need to admire a man, and accept the gentler role of loving him. A learned woman cannot castrate a truck-driver like she can her intellectual rival, because he has no exaggerated respect for her bookish capacities. The alternative to conventional education is not stupidity, and many a clever girl needs the corrective of a humbler soul's genuine wisdom.”
“Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole.”
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”

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“By doubting we come to questioning, and by questioning we perceive the truth,”
“Self-government means self support.”
“I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.”

Source : Jim Harrison (2008). “Julip: A Novel”, p.228, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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