"There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself."

Source : Ryszard Kapuscinski (2009). “Travels with Herodotus”, p.267, Vintage

Ryszard Kapuscinski

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“No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.”

Source : Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.
“March 16th, Mike Tyson [vs.] Razor Ruddock, Razor Ruddock dies. If he doesn't die, it doesn't count. If he's not dead, it doesn't count.”
“Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1950). “The Bess Streeter Aldrich reader”
“The luxurious ache of tired but not weary limbs.”

Source : Margaret Fairless Barber (1950). “The roadmender: and other writings”
“The inerrancy of Scripture means that scripture in the original manuscripts does not affirm anything that is contrary to fact.”

Source : Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.83, Harper Collins
“Once I'm satisfied and I've made enough money where I can afford to live in Malibu, because it's very expensive, I will definitely be back there.”

Source : Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 8, 2008.
“It was a great step in science when men became convinced that, in order to understand the nature of things, they must begin by asking, not whether a thing is good or bad, noxious or beneficial, but of what kind it is? And how much is there of it? Quality and Quantity were then first recognised as the primary features to be observed in scientific inquiry.”

Source : James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.217, Courier Corporation
“The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.”

Source : 1970 Innovations.

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