“You will always find some Eskimos ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heat waves.”
Stanisław Jerzy Lec book Unkempt Thoughts
p, 125
Unkempt Thoughts (1957)
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Fred Dibnah (1938–2004) English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering
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“When you look into the abyss, it’s not supposed to wave back.”
Terry Pratchett book Thief of Time
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Brian Andreas (1956) American artist
Variant: She waved at all the people on the train & later, when she saw they didn't wave back, she started singing songs to herself & it went that way the whole day & she couldn't remember having a better time in her life.
Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film maker, actor and political candidate
Armies of the Night (1968)
“A small rock holds back a great wave.”
Homér Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic
Variant: You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are
Ed Seykota (1946) American commodities trader
Source: Harris, Sunny J. Trading 102: Getting Down to Business, Wiley; 1 edition (September 1998), ISBN 0471181331 Read it here http://books.google.co.uk/books?vid=ISBN0471181331&id=lvq0DElVjRIC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=seykota&sig=SvwZDgQxbP1_aH9Pi06-xucp4P0