"When arranging a tour around the United States I had decided to cross on the Titanic. It was rather a novelty to be on the largest ship yet launched. It was no exaggeration to say that it was quite easy to lose one's way on such a ship."

-- Lawrence Beesley

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“I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.”
“Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.”
“Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasnâ€™t drinking in crappy bars, I was home by myself reading: a life that was achingly lonely, and yet perversely designed to prevent anybody from ever getting close enough to really know me.”

Source : Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.16, Penguin
“It is far best for the Christian never to see some things, so he will never want them. The old-fashioned Christian who will not have playing cards in his house will never learn to gamble with them. One who never sees, in movies and night clubs or elsewhere, half-clothed girls, drinking, smoking, gambling, petting, making love to many men, is likely to miss being led into that kind of life by these sirens of sin. It is the Devil's game to make people think it necessary for people to "know the ways of the world.”
“I like the word "indolence." It makes my laziness seem classy.”
“There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.”
“It is the empiric who never fails.”
“Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.”

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