Robert Byron quotes
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“Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.”
-- Robert ByronSource : Robert Byron (2016). “The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded”, p.6, MarcoPolo
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“There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.”
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“I have learned that the cost of everything from a royal suite to a bottle of soda water can be halved by the simple expedient of saying it must be halved.”
-- Robert ByronSource : Robert Byron (2016). “The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotaded”, p.41, MarcoPolo
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“Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.”
-- Robert ByronSource : 1937 The Road to Oxiana.
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“All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.”
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“The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.”
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“But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.”
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“All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.”
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Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
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“The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.”
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“I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.”
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