"We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours."

-- John of Salisbury

#Sight Quotes #Giants Quotes #Add Quotes

“I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.”

Source : "Depeche Mode: 'We're dysfunctional. Maybe that's what makes us tick'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2013.
“A lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.”
“Mother Nature clearly intended for us to get our food from the "patty" group, which includes hamburgers, fish sticks, and McNuggets- foods that have had all of their organs safely removed.”
“To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have.”
“Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 13, 2013
“This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.”
“The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable timeâ€¦ it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising â€” carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that,”
“I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us”

Source : Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.143, Penguin

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