"I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills."

-- Isak Dinesen

#Feet Quotes #Hills Quotes

“That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.”
“Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.”
“I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding school in Devon and I suffered from dyslexia quite badly, but they had a very good department there which specialised in it.”
“We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.”

Source : "Think big on renewables scale" by David J. C. MacKay, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2009.
“Anything that has to do with money, I want to be in that business.”
“Something is going to have to happen. Not necessarily something big. Just something.”

Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.10, Canongate Books
“It is precisely through falling prices that the fruits of increased productivity and economic growth are spread throughout the market economy.”
“What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.”

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