"Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape."

-- Loren Eiseley

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“There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant to be known.”
“What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?”
“Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy”
“We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.”
“The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.”
“[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.”

Source : "Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait". Book by Cargill Gilston Knott, p. 11, 1911.
“I donâ€™t think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are â€œbad with names.â€ No one is bad with names. That is not a real thing. Not knowing peopleâ€™s names isnâ€™t a neurological condition; itâ€™s a choice. You choose not to make learning peopleâ€™s names a priority. Itâ€™s like saying, â€œHey, a disclaimer about me: Iâ€™m rude.”
“He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.”

Source : Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”

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