Ben Robertson quotes
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“It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.”
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“It is a great comfort to a rambling people to know that somewhere there is a permanent home--perhaps it is the most final of the comforts they ever really know.”
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“It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty. We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.”
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“We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?”
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“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”
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“Creativity is the defeat of habit by imposing originality and change.”
Source : Arthur Koestler, Harold Harris (1975). “Astride the two cultures: Arthur Koestler at 70”, Not Avail
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