"Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective."

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Source : John Buchan (2016). “SIR EDWARD LEITHEN Complete Collection – 6 Titles in One Premium Edition (Mystery & Thriller Series): The Power-House, John Macnab, The Dancing Floor, The Gap in the Curtain, Sick Heart River & Sing a Song of Sixpence”, p.17, e-artnow

John Buchan

#Believe Quotes #Heart Quotes #Men Quotes

“We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.”
“We can't really have a serious debate about reform on immigration if we don't have operational control of the border. ... With the executive order out there, with the urgency of the threat, I think it's very likely that we'll get something passed, later this year.”

Source : "Becerra expects immigration bill soon" by Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com. February 13, 2013.
“I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from which we threaten the biosphere and jeopardize our own survival, for Homo sapiens is close to the head of the list of endangered species.”
“I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.”
“Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.”
“Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His Son. He already knows, and we have the opportunity to learn, that no matter how difficult our circumstances, all these things shall be for our experience, and our good.”
“Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.”
“Animals were both the lives I took care of and the lives who took care of me.”

Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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