"The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory."

-- Daniel J. Boorstin

#Maps Quotes #Territory Quotes #Humans Quotes

“I was chef to the French Presidents between '56 and '59, finished with de Gaulle, and during de Gaulle I remember serving Eisenhower, Nehru, Tito, Macmillan; those were the heads of state at the time. I never saw anyone. No one would ever, ever, ever come to the kitchen. You couldn't even see them.”

Source : "Jacques Pã©pin Is Not A Mallow Man" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.
“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”
“Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?”
“I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day”
“We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.”
“As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.”
“We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.”

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