Pierre Boulle quotes
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“There's always some further action to take.”
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“Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was an ape, a large-sized gorilla. It was in vain that I told myself I was losing my reason: I could entertain not the slightest doubt as to his species. But an encounter with a gorilla on the planet Soror was not the essential outlandishness of the situation. This for me lay in the fact that the ape was correctly dressed, like a man of our world, and above all that he wore his clothes in such an easy manner.”
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“But once an original book has been written - and no more than one or two appear in a century - men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.”
-- Pierre Boulle
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“Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.”
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“Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.”
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“My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.”
Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams (1848). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams”, p.95
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“...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.”
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“Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”
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“Dreams grow holy put in action.”
Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1861). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.111
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