"Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day."

-- Harry S. Truman

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“There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever be able to achieve. Isn't that what we're all searching for in life? To just be happy and content in the moment, to just be there in the "now"?”
“It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.”
“I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.”
“When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it.”
“Long distance hiking is not a vacation, it's too long for that. It's not recreation, too much toil and pain involved. It is, we decide, a way of life, a very simplified Spartan way of living ... life on the move ... heavy packs, sweating brow; they make you appreciate warm sunshine, companionship, cool water. The best way to appreciate these things that are precious and important in life it is take them away.”
“Indie world won't have me, and mainstream world treats me like an alien, but here I am still floating between these two worlds.”
“My only crime was being a man and living in the world of men, and you don't have to do special penance for that. The crime and the penance, in that case, coincide perfectly. They are identical.”
“The framework of a symphony must be so strong that it forces you to follow it, regardless of the environment and circumstances.”

Source : Jean Sibelius' remarks to Jussi Jalas, October 1, 1939.

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