"In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum."

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Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

#Winning Quotes #Views Quotes #People Quotes

“When fear has seized upon the mind, man fears that only which he first began to fear. [Lat., Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt, quod primum formidate coeperunt.]”
“The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a manâ€™s quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness.”
“People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.”
“If it's possible to send a message from heaven, I'll get one to you.”
“As you yourself have said, what other explanation can there be?' Poirot stared straight ahead of him. 'That is what I ask myself,' he said. 'That is what I never cease to ask myself.”
“We often say, and you have heard the expression as it has already been referred to in this conference, that "as man now is, God once was, and as God now is, man may become." The only way man may become as God now is, is through fulfilling the laws of celestial marriage and the laws of the gospel, as I have just read to you the word of the Lord from the D&C. Can we afford to overlook such opportunities for exaltation? Temple marriage is not just another form of church wedding; it is a divine covenant with the Lord that if we are faithful to the end, we may become as God now is.”
“I want to continue to grow. To me, the biggest sin of all sins, is to be given a gift, a talent, because it's actually a gift from God, to take that and not cultivate it and make it grow, that's the biggest sin in the world.”
“Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours”

Source : Rodman Philbrick (2013). “The Last Book in the Universe”, p.223, Scholastic Inc.

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