"In order to keep pace with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands."

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Source : James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.156, BoD – Books on Demand

James Nasmyth

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“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.”
“In football you sometimes have beauty and cruelty together.”
“The price of apparent happiness and enjoyment is the neglect of the spontaneous active energies of the acting members.”
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. The totalitarian world, whether founded on Marx, Islam, or anything else, is a world of answers rather than questions. There, the novel has no place.”
“We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.”
“I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan. I've been taught in my life that you can have plans, but you can't count on them. There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.”
“Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.”

Source : "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”

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