![]() “If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.” – Galileo Galilei Everything around you is numbers.” – Shakuntala Devi “Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. “There is nothing but a plank between a sailor and eternity.” “I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder … Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that.” – Capt. “Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.” – Mark Twain Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.” – Marie Osmond “A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.” – John Steinbeck ![]() “No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.” – Winston Churchill “Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.” “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” “Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.” – Omar Bradley “And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” – John Masefield “Don’t reinvent the wheel, just realign it.” – Anthony D’Angelo “Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.” – Lorne Michaels “I’m also interested in creating a lasting legacy… because civ 6 will last for thousands of years.” “Bronze is the mirror of the form, wine of the mind.” – Aeschylus “When wasteful war shall statues overturn, and broils root out the work of masonry.” – William Shakespeare “Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.” – Adrienne Clarkson All you have to do is cross out the wrong words." It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.” – Paulo Coelho “May the forces of evil become confused while your arrow is on its way to the target.” – George Carlin It fell to earth, I knew not where.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The man who has grit enough to bring about the afforestation or the irrigation of a country is not less worthy of honor than its conqueror.” – Sir John Thomson “Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” “A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician.” “I don’t believe in astrology I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.” – Arthur C. But life at sea is better.” – Sir Francis Drake “It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. "Vessels large may venture more, but little boats should keep near shore." ![]() "When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging." "Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner?” – Merle Travis "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." “I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter’s hand.” – Janet Fitch “No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.” - Plutarch “Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.” – Ansel Adams And yes, they will cut your pretty face.” – Budd Erickson “Tsingy is a 250-square-mile tiger trap made up on massive obelisks riddled with jagged spears. “Several closely situated granite peaks resembling tiger’s teeth dramatically soar about a kilometer into the sky” – Howard Hillman I knew the road to Milford Sound was good – but this good?” – Darroch Donald “But as I headed into the heart of New Zealand’s fiordland that same child-like feeling, long lost, of pure unadulterated awe came rushing back. “The Pantanal is the most complex intertropical alluvional plain of the planet and perhaps the least known area of the world.” – Aziz Ab’Saber “As it turns out, Mount Kilimanjaro is not wi-fi enabled, so I had to spend two weeks in Tanzania talking to the people on my trip.” – Nancy Bonds “The natural history of this archipelago is very remarkable: it seems to be a little world within itself.” – Charles Darwin ![]() “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary “Like to the apples on the Dead Sea’s shore, all ashes to the taste.” – Lord Byron Crater Lake is above them all.” – Jack London “Never again can I gaze upon the beauty spots of the Earth and enjoy them as being the finest thing I have ever seen. “Under the White Cliff’s battlemented crown, Hushed to a depth of more than Sabbath peace.” – William Wordsworth Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.” – Janine Benyus “Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. I haven't seen these online anywhere yet, so I thought I'd put them up here. A new Civilization game launched this weekend and with it comes a list of new quotes. ![]()
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