"Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift."

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Source : Ernest Thompson Seton (2010). “The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe Journey”, p.48, BoD – Books on Demand

Ernest Thompson Seton

#Hunting Quotes #Buffalo Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I'm waxed clean - hairless as the day as I was born. But don't say 'Tia has no pubic hair.' That's so clinical. Use a nice euphemism. Say 'She's mowed her secret garden' or 'She's cleared the way to the Promised Land.' Because that's what it is, right?”
“One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.”
“I agree with Warren to keep it simple and not use higher mathematics in your analysis.”
“As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.”
“People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.”
“Why should these Palestinians, who have lived in Jerusalem for hundreds of years, be evicted from their homes so that Jews from Brooklyn can live in them?”
“The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.”
“My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.”

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