"Every man paddles his own canoe."

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Source : Settlers in Canada ch. 8 (1844)

Frederick Marryat

“Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!”

Source : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.240, Delacorte Press
“Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.”
“Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.”

Source : Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). “Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield
“You are not just, "This is the way I play it every night." You are constantly finding new ways in, new attacks, "I want to try it this way. Maybe this scene is affecting that scene. I want to attack this scene differently."”
“Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.”
“President Bartlet: There's a delegation of cardiologists having their pictures taken in the Blue Room. You wouldn't think you could find a group of people more arrogant than the fifteen of us, but there they are, right upstairs in the Blue Room.”
“The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends.”
“To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.”

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