"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."

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Source : John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs. [”

John Burroughs

#Inspirational Quotes #Life Quotes #Birthday Quotes

“I am not here for women only, but also for women.”
“Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.”
“Here's what I think. I think that a lot of days, for me recently, it's like every split second the whole universe is created and destroyed. It's like constantly collapsing and reforming. And I think a lot of people feel that. I think that love is the answer and that's the only thing that matters.”
“A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears.”
“Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.”
“Soon after Marilyn died, I met Bobby Kennedy and he looked at me as if to say: 'I am your enemy'.”
“Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,/A secret that my daddy said was just between us.â€/He said, â€œDaddies don't just love their children every now and then./It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen.”
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

Source : "A Cult of Ignorance". Newsweek, January 21, 1980.

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