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“Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.”

Knows Giving Writing Has Beens Pain Heaven Hours Chance Journey Reader Bitter Heartache Relaxation Tedium Bitter Experience

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.”

Moments Might Three Courses Hours Chance Results Succeed Elements Winter Storm Snow Fierce Fifth Avenues February Fifth Avenue Snow Storms

Book:Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

Source: Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes

“Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.”

Heart Littles Hours Chance Beauty Sweet Empty Opening Dawn Breasts Jewels Beam Loveless

Book:Alan Seeger: the complete works

Source: Alan Seeger: the complete works

“It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi.”

Want Two Country Home Might Night Speak Bits Hours Chance My Own Sleep Setting Settings Get Back Going To Sleep Back Home Mississippi Free Country

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“My seminars are for you. They are moments, hours and evenings outside of time. A chance, in a highly charged environment, to meditate, find stillness, and remember who you are. A place, with others of like mind, to find and lose yourself in the transcendental light.”

Mind Moments Light Remember Hours Loses Chance Environment Buddhism Who You Are Evening Stillness Rama Transcendental Losing Yourself Seminars Remember Who You Are

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.”

“I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!”

Giving Hours Chance Baseball Expected Another Chance Hang In There

Author:Mickey Mantle

“The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.”

Source: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“I train for about 25 to 30 hours a week so I need to eat a lot. You just need to have a generally healthy diet. You need to be eating foods with lots of vitamins and minerals. You need to make sure you eat properly in order to give yourself the best chance of performing and recovering from training and competing.”

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Author:Alistair Brownlee

“Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.”