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"At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island."
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"Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth."
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"You can't fatten the pig on market day."
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"By being rigid, you become temporary; by being flexible, you become permanent!"
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"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half."
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"At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island."
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"There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it."
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"The person who knows how to adjust to others, he will not have any suffering. 'Adjust everywhere'."
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"Every person has to prepare himself to the point where no place would be burdensome for him. The place may get bored with him, but he will not get bored; he has to get prepared to that extent. Because otherwise these are infinite places; there is no end to the places. Infinite places are there."
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"The world is fast changing and until you learn to adapt and adjust to stand out from the masses, you will fade into oblivion."
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"Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day."
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"A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again."
Experience
"It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea."
Man
"Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms."
Man
"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms."
Poetry
"I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen."
Writing
"What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?"
Family
"In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas."
People
"At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island."
Adaptability
"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."
Soothing
"The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island."
Death
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