"From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but"

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Source : James Cook (1897). “Captain Cook's Voyages Round the World”

James Cook

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“You still could go to some industry or some university or the government and if you could persuade them you had something on the ballâ€”why, then, they might put up the cash after cutting themselves in on just about all of the profits. And, naturally, they'd run the show because it was their money and all you had done was the sweating and the bleeding.”
“If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.”

Source : "Conversations With Artists". Book by Selden Rodman, 1957.
“I've been really happy just traveling and being Mrs. Johnny Cash all these years. But I'm also really happy and surprised that someone wanted me to make another album, and I'm real proud of what I've done.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.”
“He wanted to fly in lightweight contraptions with her.”
“[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.”
“As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky”
“I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.”

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