"A man tends to over-estimate what he can do in one year...and under-estimate what he can do in five."

-- Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

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“Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift.”
“While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can produce it. Whether the disease can be transmitted by any other agency must be decided by future investigations. Meanwhile the evidence accumulated thus far seems to favor very strongly the dictum: No ticks, no Texas fever.”
“You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.”

Source : John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.340, Oxford University Press, USA
“When a child has no hope, a nation has no future.”

Source : Zell Miller (1998). “Listen to this Voice: Selected Speeches of Governor Zell Miller”
“The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially unlike the reality, although it must be accepted as true to that reality. Its truth consists in the fact that it is impossible to correct it, and in the fact that it only professes to consider one aspect of the percept.”
“Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.”

Source : Karel Capek (2004). “R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)”, p.89, Penguin
“I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.”
“Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating to unfold before my eyes.”

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