"We must go and see for ourselves."

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Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 26 June 1997

Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.”

Source : John Gierach (1989). “Fly Fishing Small Streams”, p.31, Stackpole Books
“All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.”

Source : "Imagined worlds" by Susanna Clarke, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2009.
“If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.”
“Hurry up: your dreams are waiting for you, but they will not wait forever”
“All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.”

Source : Simon Greenleaf (1846). “An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice: With an Account of the Trial of Jesus”, p.30
“Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.”
“Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.”
“He taught me to trust in tomorrow.”

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