"All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold."

-- Anita Brookner

#Winning Quotes #Favors Quotes #Ancient Quotes

“As many glaciers are melting and icy tundras are decaying, there's an unprecedented amount of woolly mammoth material that's becoming dislodged from the ice. Not just mammoth, but all kinds of fossils from the past. What occurred to me was, had anyone tried to pinpoint the first case of human-induced extinction? What was the first time we as species pushed another one to oblivion? I would argue that's probably going to be one of the defining moral problems of the century, human-induced extinction. And I really wanted to know, when did we first cross that barrier?”

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“But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.”
“Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few of them even unto death. But every one of us - every single one of us - knew and took great strength from the belief that we were different from our enemies, that we were better than them, that we, if the roles were reversed, would not disgrace ourselves by committing or countenancing such mistreatment of them.”
“I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'”
“Don't get down on yourself when you get rejection letters.”
“If Iâ€™d only known which [photographs] would be very good and liked, I wouldnâ€™t have had to do all the thousands of others.”
“Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.”
“You're dumb, but don't give in.”

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