"If the reason youâ€™re taking on a mission is for the money youâ€™ll make, I believe youâ€™ll fail."

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John Doerr

#Believe Quotes #Failing Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon ... shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.”

Source : "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (pp. 79-80), 1993.
“There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.”
“My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.”
“Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically.”
“Be a number one yourself. And not a number two somebody else.”
“There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.”
“What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.”
“The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 155, 1989.

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