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"Curiosity
is a stronger force than gravity. If it weren’t, there would be no
aeroplanes".
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Ronald D. Davis
in The Gift of Dyslexia
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"You must
find the way to let the heat of experience temper your naiveté without
reducing your idealism to ashes".
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Jach Laidlaw
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"There are
three ages of man: youth, middle age, and you-haven’t-changed-a-bit
age".
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Washington Irving
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"At the
moment of writing the author is fictive. Only the story is real".
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Tom Docherty
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"No man,
having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the
kingdom of God".
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Wordsworth
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"A lot of
people prefer to stand on stilts of a cause rather than wait to grow up
to the impure complexity of being an individual".
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William McIllvanney
in "The Kiln"
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"You can’t
disown your own past without becoming no one".
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William McIllvanney
in "The Kiln"
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"Jokes are
to humour what masturbation is to sex".
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William McIllvanney
in "The Kiln"
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"Social life
seems a farce, individual life seems a tragedy. Since all of us are
individuals first, it would seem to follow that life is a tragedy
performed by farceurs. Enjoy the play".
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William McIllvanney
in "The Kiln"
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"You don’t
live beyond griefs, you just find a way to live round them".
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William McIllvanney
in "The Kiln"
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"I've missed more
than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six
times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot——and missed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I
succeed".
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Michael Jordan
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