Alexander Agassiz Quotes
My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.
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I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects and after less than a year in England was carried to Canada by my parents.
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Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.
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The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.
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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
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Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.
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Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other, That passionate Love is Pain's own mother.
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Sometimes God gives instructions that go against conventional wisdom, such as treating people kindly when they're hateful. Who really wants to do that? Instructions like that may not always make sense, so that's why I need to trust and obey the One who inspired them.
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Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
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If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.
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Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.
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I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.
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A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.
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There comes the baffling call of God in our lives also. The call of God can never be stated explicitly; it is implicit. The call of God is like the call of the sea, no one hears it but the one who has the nature of the sea in him. It cannot be stated definitely what the call of God is to, because his call is to be in comradeship with himself, for his own purposes, and the test is to believe that God knows what he is after.
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Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
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"A guy who knows how to dance knows how to fight. A guy who knows how to fight knows how to love. A person who knows how to fight will break bones yet a person who knows how to love will break hearts".
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My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.
