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• Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

  Keith Henson

  Iceland, Generations, France

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• I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Ideas, Sticks, Brilliant

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• I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Intelligent, College, People

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• I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Years, Sea, Ideas

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• In every island of the Aegaean Sea, on almost every barren rock I might say, are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire; and if the race was not far advanced in the arts of civilisation, it must at all events have had great numerical force.

  James Theodore Bent

  Ocean, Islands, Sea

  "Aegean Islands: The Cyclades, Or Life Among the Insular Greeks".

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• At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Night, Anchors

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.101

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• I had the drive to pursue speedskating and I found a sport that I was good at. If I'd got into cycling, I would just be another has been.

  Eric Heiden

  Sports, Cycling, Squash

  "Eric Heiden 25: An exclusive interview". Interview with Charlie Snyder, snyderemarks.com. February 17, 2005.

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• ‎This I know... That often when I sang, and drummed, and danced, I found my eternity.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Wisdom, Eternity, Knows

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• It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments which we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.

  Robert Southey

  Country, Men, Mind

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• Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Weed, Flower, Pigs

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1935). “The Scarlet Letter (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.24, Sparklesoup LLC

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• LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Independent, Editing, Independence

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.

  Andrea Hirata

  Stars, Coffee, Airplane

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• Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation, but, we venture to say, they will find themselves very much enlightened during the process, and will even be doubtful whether the ideas as expressed in symbols had ever quite found their way out of the equations into their minds.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Science, Ideas, Effort

  James Clerk Maxwell, W. D. Niven (2003). “The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell”, p.328, Courier Corporation

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• We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or later some use will be found for our studies. The mathematician, of course, prides himself on being totally useless, but usually turns out to be the most useful of the lot. He finds the solution but he is not interested in what the problem is: sooner or later, someone will find the problem to which his solution is the answer.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Moving, Science, Pride

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• ADAMSBERG WAS NOT A MAN WHO WENT IN FOR EMOTION: he skirted around strong feelings with caution, like swifts who only brush past windows with their wings, never going in, because they know it will be difficult to get out. He had often found dead birds in the village houses back home, imprudent visitors who had ventured inside and never again found their way back to the open air. Adamsberg considered that when it came to love, humans were no wiser than birds.

  Fred Vargas

  Love, Strong, Home

  "An Uncertain Place". Book by Fred Vargas, 2008.

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• In these pages, and in my memories, she reminds me that a short life can also be a good and rich life, that it is possible to live with depression without being consumed by it, and that meaning in life is found together, in family and friendship that transcends and survives all manner of suffering. As the poet wrote in the Bible's Song of Solomon, 'Love is strong as death.' Or perhaps even stronger.

  John Green

  Love, Song, Strong

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• I cannot regret it. They tell us in the temple that true joy is found only in freedom from the Wheel that is death and rebirth, that we must come to despise earthly joy and suffering, and long only for the peace of the presence of the eternal. Yet I love this life on Earth, Morgan, and I love you with a love that is stronger than death, and if sin is the price of binding us together, life after life across the ages, then I will sin joyfully and without regret, so that it brings me back to you, my beloved!

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Love, Regret, True Joy

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.74, Ballantine Books

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• My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would probably not entail to much time. Just some hair and make-up. I found out that it was not so simple.

  Kim Hunter

  Love, Simple, Hair

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• It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.

  Tom Chapin

  Love, Believe, Guitar

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• When I got married and had a child and went to work, my day was all day, all night. You lose your sense of balance. That was in the late '60s, '70s, women went to work, they went crazy. They thought the workplace was much more exciting than the home. They thought the family could wait. And you know what? The family can't wait. And women have now found that out. It all has to do with women, or the homemaker leaving the home and realizing that where they've gone is not as fabulous, or as rewarding, or as self-fulfilling as the balance between the workplace and the home place.

  Martha Stewart

  Success, Children, Crazy

  "Discovering Everyday Good Things". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher trying to understand. If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Curiosity, Trying, Strange

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I woke to find every window open I woke to find the heavy door ajar And I walked outside and stood upon the hilltop And gazed once more on a bright morning star I walked outside and every bird was singing As I found again my bright morning star

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Morning, Stars, Doors

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• When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.

  Minor White

  Mirrors, Self, Fool

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• We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.

  Saku Koivu

  Team, Swings, Two

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• I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there is nothing of it here to be sought or found, but only hope and fair promises; and that Christ will give us nothing here but tears, sadness, crosses; and that we shall never feel the smell of the flowers of that high garden of paradise above, till we come there. Nay, but I find it possible to find young glory, and a young green paradise of joy even here. We dream of hunger in Christ's house, while we are here, although He alloweth feasts to all the bairns within God's household.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Dream, Flower

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