"No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground."

-- Claire McCaskill

#Guy Quotes #Chiefs Quotes

“To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.”

Source : Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.
“[There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here [in California] we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.”
“I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.”

Source : Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.201, Routledge
“While you can say that the problem of the middle class in the rich countries is too much globalization, the problem of the people who are very poor is really that they are not included in globalization. For them, the success of their own countries at becoming part of this international division of labor would be good news.”
“The groom always smiles proudly because he's convinced he's accomplished something quite wonderful. The bride smiles because she's been able to convince him of it.”

Source : Judith McNaught (1991). “A Kingdom of Dreams”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.”
“Certainly it is permitted to anyone to put forward whatever hypotheses he wishes, and to develop the logical consequences contained in those hypotheses. But in order that this work merit the name of Geometry, it is necessary that these hypotheses or postulates express the result of the more simple and elementary observations of physical figures.”

Source : "The Mathematical Philosophy of Giuseppe Peano". Philosophy of Science Vol. 30, No. 3, July 1963.
“Because I'm sort of an honorary Canadian, I don't think the others grasped the cultural significance of who the Tragically Hip were before the tour. Talking to Sheryl Crow and her people and the guys in Wilco, everyone was ecstatic to be on the tour, it was a lot of fun. But it even took me a while to grasp the idea that this is not just a band, this is a cultural artifact, what the Hip means in Canada. There is nobody else like them.”

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