"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are."

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Source : John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”

John Burroughs

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“The sexual drive is nothing but the motor memory of previously remembered pleasure.”
“The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It was shocking to find a parallel history to that - a bunch of Americans with very different priorities. I stumbled on to these people, and then became completely fixated on them. The question that drove me was: how did these reasonable people adopt these extremely unreasonable ideas?”

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“The inevitable result of borrowed faith is lost faith. People born into a family anchored in Christendom tend to assume they're right with God, regardless of whether they personally turn from sin and trust in Jesus.”
“Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.”
“But the sense of accomplishment is something Iâ€™ve never felt before, in a physical sense.”

Source : "Charlene Tilton on Dancing on Ice and going back to Dallas". www.mirror.co.uk. January 7, 2012.
“Freestyle, especially aerials, fits the Chinese because we are good at gymnastics.”
“We can't be satisfied as a team. We have one goal in mind right now and it's the next game. We want to get to the championship. We have to come out in practice and get after each other. There can't be any letdowns, we have to keep going.”
“Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.”

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