"We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender."

-- W. Averell Harriman

#Fighting Quotes #Moscow Quotes #Determined Quotes

“A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.”
“My mom makes the best Cajun stuff. I'm a big gumbo guy. I've lost a lot of my Louisiana accent, so now when I say 'gumbo,' I feel like someone who's never said the word before.”
“You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back”

Source : Laura Moriarty (2013). “The Rest of Her Life”, p.262, Penguin UK
“There are no free lunches on welfare.”
“Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.”
“The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.”
“A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.”
“I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.”

Source : "Let-Them-Eat-Cake-Attitude Threatens to Destroy a Network of Public Assets" by Scott Turow, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.

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