John Vaillant quotes
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“Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy.”
-- John VaillantSource : "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival". Book by John Vaillant, August 24, 2010.
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“The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first.”
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“The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.”
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“Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929”
-- John VaillantSource : John Vaillant (2015). “The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed”, p.25, Random House
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“Successful hunting, it could be said, is an act of terminal empathy: the kill depends on how successfully a hunter inserts himself into the umwelt of his prey--even to the point of disguising himself as that animal and mimicking its behavior.”
-- John VaillantSource : John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.164, Vintage
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“What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?”
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“Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cowÂardice is [..].”
-- John VaillantSource : John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.16, Vintage
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“The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.”
-- John VaillantSource : John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.51, Vintage
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“A human being is a very social creature, and ninety percent of what he does is done only because other people are watching. Alone, with no witnesses, he starts to learn about himself—who is he really?”
-- John VaillantSource : John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.82, Vintage
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“Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.”
Source : Alan Dean Foster (2014). “To the Vanishing Point”, p.184, Open Road Media
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Source : Arjuna Ardagh (2010). “The Translucent Revolution: How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World”, p.21, New World Library
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“It's my policy not to review funerals.”
Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.54, Granta Books
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“Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.”
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“Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.”
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