"Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and animated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy."

-- Quintilian

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“Be a sinner and sinï»¿ï»¿ boldly,ï»¿ but believe andï»¿ï»¿ rejoice in Christ even more boldly.”
“Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.”
“Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her grandmother, in a way that her grandmother could understand what she was saying.”

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“I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.”
“One tenet of the National Rifle Association's faith has always been that handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns. For once, the NRA is right and America's leading handgun control organization is wrong. Criminals don't buy guns in gun stores. That's why they're criminals. But it isn't criminals who are killing most of the 20,000 to 22,000 people who die from handguns each year. We are.”
“Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, grown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God. Life has more than enough excitement up its sleeve, ready to hit you with as soon as you're not looking, without you adding to the drama.”
“I get the feeling people respect me and that there is affection for me. That makes me happy,”

Source : "Andrés Iniesta: Football isn't a science. We play this way because it suits us" by Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2012.
“There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and wives, parents and children, Elvis, Apollo, Walt Whitman, rhythms of its politics. Manthology is a remarkably honest and enormously heartening collection.”

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