"I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of books and periodicals, and towards the latter part of my residence from ill health arising from bad and insufficient food."

Source : Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.253

Henry Walter Bates

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“I like to run the slants. The slants are cool. I like routes that you can catch the ball running.”
“I always, always liked children... I was very afraid of them before. Because I never really grew up, I mean, with a lot of little kids around. Even though I am from a kind of Italian family, I never really grew up with a lot of little kids around.”
“Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.”

Source : Peter York (1980). “Style wars”, Sidgwick & Jackson
“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.14, Univ of California Press
“If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.”
“From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss.”
“I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.”
“And I think that Vietnameese see the United States as a source of markets, as a source of technology and as a source of this balancing power relationship with - against China. They - the Chinese and the Vietnamese have always had a very suspicious relationship of each other.”

"I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of books and periodicals, and towards the latter part of my residence from ill health arising from bad and insufficient food."

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