"Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring."

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Source : Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.251, New Directions Publishing

Henry Miller

#Inspirational Quotes #Progress Quotes #Adaptation Quotes

“Customers don't measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.”
“Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy”
“Mathematics is about making up rules and seeing what happens.”
“The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable of more work with the same expenditure of fuel.”

Source : James Prescott Joule (2011). “The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule”, p.271, Cambridge University Press
“Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is full disclosure.”
“The most innocent man, pressed by the awful solemnities of public accusation and trial, many be incapable of supporting his own cause. He may be utterly unfit to cross-examine the witnesses against him, to point out the contradictions or defects of their testimony. And to counteract it by properly introducing it and applying his own.”
“Well?' Jasper said when Mairelon did not reply. 'Who are you?' 'No, no,' Mairelon said. 'I asked you first. I also, if you recall, asked how you found this place and what you intend to do here, and you haven't told me that, either.' 'We might ask you the same thing,' Jasper retorted. 'You might, but I don't recommend it,' Mairelon said. 'You'll get a reputation as a poor conversationalist if you all can do is repeat what other people say to you.”
“The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.”

Source : Quoted in J. Hampden Jackson, Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946)

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