• Question: What is your favourite quote?

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      Asked by Liam to John, Laura, Luke, Rob, Ruth on 10 Jun 2016.
      • Photo: Robert Williams

        Robert Williams answered on 10 Jun 2016:

        Take nothing but memories, Leave nothing but footprints – the motto of Kruger National Park, in South Africa

        In Space no one can hear you scream! [Alien movie franchise]

        One small step for [a] man – one giant leap for mankind [Neil Armstrong Apollo 11]

      • Photo: Laura Finney

        Laura Finney answered on 10 Jun 2016:

        If at first you don’t succeed – try and try again!
        This is very old and very true I think. I hate to say it but my mum was right!

      • Photo: Ruth Patchett

        Ruth Patchett answered on 11 Jun 2016:

        “Context is all” I think it’s a quote from a writer called Margaret Atwood but I remember a friend saying it to me and I took it to mean “everything depends on the situation”.

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        John Fossey answered on 11 Jun 2016:

        “That night he had a stomach ache!”
        The Very Hungry Caterpillar
        Don’t over do it……..

        “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a”
        Adapted from Goodfellas

        “I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them”
        Charles Darwin

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        Luke Williams answered on 13 Jun 2016:

        Laura – I prefer the quote from elsewhere, which was apparently a paraphrase of:

        If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool about it. – W.C. Fields

        More seriously though, I love Nietzsche:

        He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

        On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

        Judgments, judgments of value, concerning life, for it or against it, can, in the end, never be true: they have value only as symptoms, they are worthy of consideration only as symptoms; in themselves such judgments are stupidities. One must by all means stretch out one’s fingers and make the attempt to grasp this amazing finesse, that the value of life cannot be estimated.

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