"My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us."

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Ursula Burns

#Mother Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Work Out Quotes

“There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.”

Source : Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”
“The only good dictator is a dead one.”

Source : George B.N. Ayittey (2011). “Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World”, p.193, St. Martin's Press
“If you argue against reality you will suffer.”
“You don't achieve anything by stopping at the first sign of difficulty. If we'd stopped after Dieppe in World War II, where would we be right now as a nation? If we'd stopped before Vimy Ridge, we wouldn't have been a nation at all. Yes, you've got to know when to say "stop" as a leader, you sure do, but you've also got to know when to push for the final thing that's going to give you the full benefit.”
“From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.”
“Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.”
“I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.”
“Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make a decision.”

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