"That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work."

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Source : Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.24, U of Nebraska Press

Rose Wilder Lane

#Hard Work Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Self Quotes

“The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict.”

Source : "The Impact of Labour, 1920-1924: The Beginnings of Modern British Politics" by Maurice Cowling, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (p. 181), 1971.
“There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.”
“There are two things you can learn by stopping your backswing at the top and checking the position of your hands; how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.”
“Clothes are not so much about who you are as who you want to be.”
“More likely, there were probably some real divisions within the Iranian government - some groups wanted to ally with al Qaeda against us, others didn't want to have anything to do with that. So I think that debate resulted in no decision being made for awhile. The problem was they left the al-Qaeda folks in Iran in the hands of their intelligence services and Revolutionary Guard, who didn't really keep an eye on them - and may not have kept an eye on them on purpose.”

Source : "The Persian Puzzle: An Interview With Kenneth Pollack". Interview With Bradford Plumer, www.motherjones.com. January 24, 2005.
“There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.”
“I come from a time when pop music was the coin of the cultural realm and in a certain way was the only coin of the realm; movies didn't matter as much, and not TV - it was all about pop music. In the era when I started - which was the early '60s - it was all about singles leading to albums.”

Source : "Cartoon Hangover Creator Fred Seibert On How You Too Can Get Your Cartoon On The Internet". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. March 21, 2013.
“I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.”

Source : Sarah Hall (2010). “The Electric Michelangelo”, p.149, Faber & Faber

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