"Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially."

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Source : Interview With Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. February 25, 2013.

Ian Bremmer

#College Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Fifteen Quotes

“While the (America's) Cup is yachting's Holy Grail, it has also come to represent the ultimate test in 'the game of life.' Just as in life, success demands commitment and commitment demands a positive winning attitude. I told all the guys who came into our Cup campaign that if they were going to make the grade they needed three essential ingredients: attitude, attitude and attitude. I wanted commitment to the commitment. When they finally made the crew, some of them joked that they ought to be committed for their commitment to the commitment.”
“A good river is nature's life work in song.”
“I just don't know when we all decided that if it doesn't fit in a Happy Meal box, it's not for kids. I remember flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, and I grew up watching Monty Python. I think that kids can handle a lot more than we give them credit for, especially when it comes to the absurd.”
“Mercy is stronger than your sword.”

Source : P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2014). “The House of Night Novellas, 4-Book Collection”, p.119, St. Martin's Griffin
“A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.”

Source : Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1816). “The works of Henry Fielding, esq: with an essay on his life and genius”, p.152
“You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.”
“You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.”
“You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!”

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