"All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly."

-- Edward Abbey

#Dams Quotes #Ugly Quotes #Canyons Quotes

“You can have all the talent in the world, but if the pumper's not there, it doesn't matter.”
“Chunking makes our brains more efficient. The more you can chunk something, the faster and easier you can process it. Wayne Gretzky had chunked hockey like no one before or since. Talented people have supremely chunked whatever they become talented at doing.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because thats been said to me.”
“Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.”
“I do not believe that the Constitution was the offspring of inspiration, but I am as satisfied that it is as much the work of a Divine Providence as any of the miracles recorded in the Old and New Testament.”

Source : Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters”
“My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.”
“Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own”
“Ability is the result of mental and physical toughness, resourcefulness, and powerful concentration.”

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