"I am fully conscious that a complete presentation of the regions visited is a task beyond my power. All I can strive to do is convey an illusion-my own illusion"

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Source : Francis Kingdon Ward, John Duncan Vaughan Campbell Cawdor (5th Earl of) (1926). “The Riddle of the Tsangpo Gorges”

Francis Kingdon Ward

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“Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling”
“I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it.”
“We can no longer speak of a bourne from which no traveler e'er returns. The middle wall of partition has been broken down and the boundary become but an invisible line by the resurrection of Christ. That He who died has been raised again and ever lives in the form of a complete humanity is the fundamental fact in the revelation of the Christian doctrine of immortality.”
“After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.”
“I thought it was safer and easier to be one my own. But I donâ€™t think I was to be invisible anymore because-because itâ€™s lonely, and I donâ€™t want to be lonely. I donâ€™t want to be alone.”

Source : Han Nolan (2010). “Crazy”, p.248, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.”

Source : Michael Bamberger (2007). “This Golfing Life”, p.43, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.”
“It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.”

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