"Utilitarianism had found [in Samuel Smiles' Self-Help] its portrait gallery of heroes, inscribed with a vigorous exhortation to all men to strive in their image; this philistine romanticism established the bourgeois hero-prototype the penniless office-boy who works his way to economic fortune and this wins his way into the mercantile plutocracy."

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John Carroll

#Hero Quotes #Winning Quotes #Boys Quotes

“He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.”

Source : Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.63, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.”
“People may come to our communities because they want to serve the poor; they will only stay once they have discovered that they themselves are poor.”
“That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .”
“That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.”
“To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.”

Source : Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”
“I believe it is important to go on insisting that normality is not what we are exposed to. Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS. No, sorry, there is one: my daughter. The point is that Mia is 11 years old. It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.”

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