"He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a dam? Did they even think about creating a dam? Maybe dams were simply accidents that resulted from their fooling around, much like the Army Corps of Engineers' accomplishments."

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Source : Patrick F. McManus (2011). “The Huckleberry Murders: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

Patrick F. McManus

#Army Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“A lot of the day-to-day, minute-to-minute struggles are a bit more taken care of, so it allows you to start asking more existential questions like, "What do I want in life? What's going to make me happy?"”
“You can grow up with literally nothing and you donâ€™t suffer if you know youâ€™re loved and valued,”

Source : "New Note" by John Colapinto, www.newyorker.com. March 15, 2010.
“It's scary but as an actress it is my job to be vulnerable, so I try to just embrace it and focus on the things I can control.”
“As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.”
“Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.”
“Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.”

Source : William Kennedy (2011). “Roscoe”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
“Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way. France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.”

Source : "Food, fear and business success". Interview with Jessica Ravitz, www.cnn.com. December 30, 2009.
“...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.”

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