Hal Boyle quotes
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“What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.”
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“Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.”
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“Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.”
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“Does Grandpa love to baby-sit his grandchildren? Are you kidding? By day he is too busy taking hormone shots at the doctor's or chip shots on the golf course. At night he and Grandma are too busy doing the cha-cha.”
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“Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.”
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“Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.”
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“The cocktail party has a simple function in modern society. Its basic purpose is to pay off social debts.”
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“I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living.”
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“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
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Source : "Who is the Chairman of This Meeting? : A Collection of Essays". Book by Ralph Osborne (p. 43), "Conversations with North American Indians" by Ted Poole, 1972.
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Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”
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