"It is men of desperate fortunes on the one hand, or of aspiring, superior fortunes on the other, who go abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves famous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road."

-- Daniel Defoe

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“Listening to Eric Taylor is better than reading a Larry McMurtry novel and easier on the eyes.”
“History, when rightly written, is but a record of providence; and he who would read history rightly, must read it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God. This statement of a nineteenth-century historian sums up the responsibility of the Christian teacher of history, for he who would teach history or any subject matter rightly, must teach it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God.”
“I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.”
“The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.”
“People are like, 'How does Julianne Moore look naked?' I don't know. She was pressed up against me the whole time. I couldn't look at her.”
“Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.”
“If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.”
“I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is inviting us in. Sagan's great art lesson for me was generosity of wonder and making curiosity contagious.”

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