"A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it."

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Source : Discovery (published 1964).

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#Land Quotes #Feet Quotes #May Quotes

“I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.”

Source : Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mignon McCarthy (1990). “Kareem”, Random House Incorporated
“Bill Hicks is a huge influence. I love him.”
“In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”
“America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.”

Source : "Obama’s Human Rights Disaster". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 25, 2009.
“I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as it is written in the Bible, that it is my duty to increase this heritage for which one day I shall be called upon to give an account. Whoever tries to interfere with my task I shall crush.”
“I suppose you retire from trying. If you retire from trying, you think, "Maybe love will just come my way if I don't want it anymore."”
“Then something fails and they're all out again, but DVD revenue is disappearing, you know, it's not disappearing but it's going off a cliff and what that's done is it's polarized the industry in a way that I've never seen before where studios are making less, they're bifurcating their choices where they're either going very, very big or they're just picking up a few rights on an acquisition basis or making really small things.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

Source : Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage

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