Lewis Carroll Quotes
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Lewis Carroll
Quotes to Explore
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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.
Francis Bacon
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Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
Albert Einstein
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For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.
William Lewis Trogdon
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If you want something done, ask. If you want something done quickly, ask, and then begin counting down from ten with no explanation.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising.
Adolf Hitler
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From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.
Eric Clapton
Blind Faith
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Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?
Barbara Holland
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I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been.
Russell Peters
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Our profession is built on the bedrock of trust - the trust that must inherently exist among Soldiers, and between Soldiers and their leaders to accomplish their mission in the chaos of war. Recent incidents of sexual assault and sexual harassment demonstrate that we have violated that trust.
Raymond T. Odierno
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I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
Erykah Badu
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The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers; pure and simple. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work, and I include in the lot alcohol, morphine, barbiturates, tranquilizers the whole spectrum of sedative drugs.
William S. Burroughs
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No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
Lewis Carroll