Snorri Sturluson quotes
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“But Loki's relations with Svadilfari were such that a while later he gave birth to a colt.”
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“To Odin many a soul was driven, to Odin many a rich gift given.”
-- Snorri SturlusonSource : Snorri Sturluson, Samuel Laing (1844). “The Heimskringla”, p.357, London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans
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“Some people reckoned up all King Harald's (King of Norway) great achievements, and said that nothing would be too difficult for him. But there were others who said that England would be very hard to conquer. It was very populous and the warriors who were known as the king's Housecarls were so valiant, that any one of them was worth two of the best in King Harald's army”
-- Snorri Sturluson
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“A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.”
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“Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.”
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“Love preserves one moment for ever, the moment of its birth. The beloved never ages.”
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“I wanted to be a quarterback. I used to like Johnny Unitas, the old quarterback for the Colts.”
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“The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed.”
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“Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.”
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