"I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds."

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Source : John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

John James Audubon

#Men Quotes #Bird Quotes #Letters Quotes

“It's always important for me as an actor to reflect human behavior for a sense of reality.”
“The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error lurk where they are least expected, and that they may escape the notice of the most experienced and conscientious worker.”
“The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.”

Source : Jean-Henri Fabre, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos (2000). “The Life of the Fly”, p.117, The Minerva Group, Inc.
“Do you believe in God? I, I believe in nothing but God!”
“How do you make people do the best work? You make them feel comfortable, so you can feel comfortable - and then you can have a really good ballgame!”
“The rural Chinese in Henan Province mixed alcohol and business like you wouldnâ€™t believe. Perhaps as a result, they also had a charming nationalistic blind spot: they honestly believed they could out-drink everyone else on the planet. As an Irish-American who outweighed them by 50 pounds, I had come to find this both amusing and useful.”
“I do belive in fate. It's hard to accept that it's maybe not possible to change anything and I don't really like the thought of not having free will. I like thinking myself as an individual human being who can decide what he wants, but I think it's fascinating and interesting to think about if you have free will or not. Maybe your body decides something for you, your body is hungry and you decide to eat something, so is it free will or not? You don't know.”
“It is a common fate -- a woman's lot -- To waste on one the riches of her soul, Who takes the wealth she gives him, but cannot Repay the interest, and much less the whole.”

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