"Poverty doesnâ€™t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor."

-- Sherman Alexie

#Perseverance Quotes #Giving Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.”
“As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic.”
“I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies.”

Source : Merrill Markoe (1992). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, Viking Press
“It's this simple: You are a brand. You are in charge of your brand. There is no single path to success. And there is no one right way to create the brand called You. Except this: Start today. Or else.”
“Why would you have a language that is not theoretically exciting? Because it's very useful.”
“Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices.”
“The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.”
“If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.”

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