"[On the camel:] When it kneels to be laden it always grumbles, growls and shows resentment, but of this the driver takes no notice. He goes on loading up until the moment when the beast suddenly becomes silent; then he knows that the burden is heavy enough, and nothing more is added."

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Source : Mildred Cable, Francesca French (1944). “The Gobi Desert”

Mildred Cable

#Goes On Quotes #Camels Quotes #Resentment Quotes

“This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.”
“Without charm there can be no fine literature, as there can be no perfect flower without fragrance.”

Source : Arthur Symons (1958). “The symbolist movement in literature”
“The excess of pleasure is pain”
“Those who love God never meet for the last time.”
“My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.”

Source : "The skip’s good-bye". Interview with Mitch Albom, www.mitchalbom.com. November 10, 2013.
“They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.”
“If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?”
“I get embarrassed listening to my last CDs. I've got a lot of work to do, let's put it that way.”

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