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Mark Twain quote: "A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably..."

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers. H. G. Wells
Margaret Atwood quote: "It must have been then that I began to lose faith in..."
It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth. Margaret Atwood
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back..."
And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites. F. Scott Fitzgerald
You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man. Barbara Ehrenreich
Patricia Cornwell quote: "Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my..."
Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air. Patricia Cornwell
Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate. Barbara de Angelis
Thomas Wolfe quote: "Only the dead know Brooklyn."
Only the dead know Brooklyn. Thomas Wolfe
J. R. R. Tolkien quote: "Korkularndan katn sanan bir adam, kestirme bir yoldan dosdoru..."
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He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else. Tobias Wolff
Henry Miller quote: "Real wisdom is being stored away in the subcellars by the..."
Real wisdom is being stored away in the subcellars by the misers of learning. Henry Miller
Harrison Ford quote: "You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as..."
You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow. Harrison Ford
He yearned to know nothing more about himself, to find peace, to be dead. If only lightning could come and kill him. If only a tiger could come and devour him. If only there were a wine, a poison that could bring him a stupor, bring him sleep and oblivion and no more awakening. Was there any filth with which he had not soiled himself, any sin or folly he had not committed, any spiritual bleakness with which he had not burdened himself? Was it still possible to go on living? Was it possible to... Herman Hesse
The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do. Mick Taylor
Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me. John Paul Jones
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Jules Verne