"We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South."

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Source : Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.15, BoD – Books on Demand

Roald Amundsen

#Gratitude Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Ice Quotes

“We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.”
“The cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world.”
“Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.”
“I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.”
“Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up on relationships, simply to give up. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to me to be the voice of innocence.”
“There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. Thatâ€™s the end. Thatâ€™s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day.”
“The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this new member of the solar system, and its exact location, were demonstrated with pencil and paper; there was left to observers only the routine task of pointing their telescopes at the spot the mathematicians had marked.”

Source : James R. Newman (2000). “The World of Mathematics”, p.820, Рипол Классик

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