Parcel Quotes

• Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

  John Ruskin

  Travel, Journey, Different

  John Ruskin (1857). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 4. Of many things”

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• You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

  Tertullian

  Freedom, Pieces

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• Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

  Dennis Potter

  Personality, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

  Oliver Tambo

  Black, Discrimination, Oppression

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• I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

  Charles de Lint

  Thinking, Mad, Genius

  "Memory and Dream". Book by Charles de Lint, 1994.

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• I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior, but we are after all a mere part of the Creation. And we must continue to understand where we are. And we stand between the mountain and the ant, somewhere and there only, as part of the Creation.

  Oren Lyons

  Native American, Eagles, Understanding

  "Animal Grace: Can Humans Rise to the Call?" by Sheila Shayon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2009.

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• That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Character, Dishonesty

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Leadership, Women, Gambling

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• Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

  Angela Carter

  Life, Art, Mean

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• A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage, affectionate and aloof, greedy and finicky, sound asleep in one instant, and awake and stalking in the next. A cat is a limp puddle of softness, surrounding a steel-hard and ever-alert set of muscles. ... A cat has the face of a pansy flower, and is just as velvety. A cat holds infinity in her eyes, and your heart in her front paws.

  Leonore Fleischer

  Flower, Heart, Cat

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• Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what makes life so interesting. The dramas we encounter are part and parcel of being human. If we experienced no change or drama in our lives, if nothing unexpected ever happened, we would merely be like automatons, our lives unbearably monotonous and dull. Therefore, please develop a strong self so that you can enact the drama of your life with confidence and poise in the face of whatever vicissitudes you may encounter.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Drama, Self

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• If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook this the greatest revolution of our times. Let us remember this, that when the three cries among our next neighbours are money, taxation, blood, it is time for us to provide for our own security.

  Thomas D'Arcy McGee

  Blood, People, Desire

  Legislative Assembly, February 9, 1865.

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• The air, the water and the ground are free gifts to man and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink and breathe and walk and therefore each man has a right to his share of each.

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Air, Free Gifts

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• Alexander Hamilton realized that warfare was part and parcel of human nature, and it's something we had to prepare for.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Warfare, Human Nature

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• I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.

  Garry Disher

  Country, Book, House

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• Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.

  Tom Peters

  Peace, Mistake, Passion

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.116, Vintage

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• The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from parcel delivery, taking photographs or conducting schools of flying.

  Harriet Quimby

  Women, School, Flying

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• I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of letters, parcels of books and periodicals, and towards the latter part of my residence from ill health arising from bad and insufficient food.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Book, Rivers, Ill Health

  Henry Walter Bates (1873). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.253

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• The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the misfortune to be inflicted with some particular disease is solely responsible for searching the facilities to cure his illness. This is a social responsibility which is accepted by governments all over the world. This is part and parcel of the organization of individuals into societies. It is a measure of the degree of civilization.

  Toh Chin Chye

  Responsibility, Government, Civilization

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• Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.

  Dave Barry

  Driving, Truck, Inns

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys”, p.58, Ballantine Books

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• Spiritual education is not a distinct and separate discipline; it is part and parcel of all types and levels of education, In fact, it is the very foundation on which a lasting edifice can be built.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Discipline, Facts

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• There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.

  Jermain Defoe

  Football, Player, Competition

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• My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Inspectors, Posts

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• To lovers of the wild, these mountains are not a hundred miles away. Their spiritual power and the goodness of the sky make them near, as a circle of friends. ... You cannot feel yourself out of doors; plain, sky, and mountains ray beauty which you feel. You bathe in these spirit-beams, turning round and round, as if warming at a camp-fire. Presently you lose consciousness of your own separate existence: you blend with the landscape, and become part and parcel of nature.

  John Muir

  Spiritual, Doors, Sky

  John Muir (2001). “Meditations of John Muir: Nature's Temple”

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• I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.

  Barack Obama

  America, Effort, World

  "Guantanamo Bay Still Unresolved". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 14, 2013.

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