"If I fail, you will never hear of me again."

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Source : Eadweard Muybridge (1979). “Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: All 781 Plates from the 1887 Animal Locomotion”, Courier Dover Publications

Eadweard Muybridge

#Failing Quotes

“We don't want to survive. We want to be healed.”
“At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.”

Source : William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.71, London : R. Bentley
“Utility is the true criterion of beauty.”
“The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.”
“Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration.”

Source : Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.11
“There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.”
“On June 10, the worst storm in the series swept across the middle of the Indian Ocean and Wild Eyes was directly in its path.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I celebrate masculinity when I'm onstage.”

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