"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance."

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Source : Bruce Barton (1959). “The Man and the Book Nobody Knows”

Bruce Barton

#Inspirational Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Inspiring Quotes

“The legal system doesn't work. Or more accurately, it doesn't work for anyone except those with the most resources. Not because the system is corrupt. I don't think our legal system (at the federal level, at least) is at all corrupt. I mean simply because the costs of our legal system are so astonishingly high that justice can practically never be done.”
“Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.”
“If you want to know the reality, you have to become the spirit.”
“Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.”
“That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.”
“That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well â€” it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere â€” belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.”
“the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.”
“When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.”

Source : Mary Jane Ward (1983). “The snake pit”

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