"All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears."

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Source : Joaquin Miller (1917). “The Building of the City Beautiful”

Joaquin Miller

#Winning Quotes #Years Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.”

Source : Quoted in Gary Zukav, The DancingWu Li Masters (1979)
“Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.”

Source : "They had parties, we got the hangover" by Ruth Sunderland, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.
“There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.”

Source : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.17, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Eating is an environmental act.”
“Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done. If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.”
“As our power over others increases, we become less free; for to retain it, we must make ourselves its servants.”
“I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.”
“In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.”

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