"To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American."

-- David Cronenberg

#Differences Quotes #Obvious Quotes #Cultural Differences Quotes

“A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.”
“By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision”
“Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.”
“Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.”
“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, and dwell upon it.”

Source : N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.83, UNM Press
“The ways we miss our lives are life.”

Source : Randall Jarrell, Mary Jarrell (1985). “Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“Have respect for every person and every issue directed at you. Do not dismiss any encounter as insignificant.”

Source : John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.63, Green Dragon Books
“What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown.”

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