"Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness."

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Source : David Drake, Eric Flint (2009). “Belisarius II: Storm at Noontide”, p.276, Baen Publishing Enterprises

Eric Flint

#Weakness Quotes #Building Quotes #Grows Quotes

“The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.”
“We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.”
“Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals.”
“Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions”
“How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?”
“Thanks, Dad," she whispered in his ear. Then recovering her composure, she knelt before him and said, "I give thanks, my Father. May your decision be proved right and true.”

Source : Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark”, p.23, Scholastic Inc.
“If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it ...”

Source : "If - " st. 2 (1910)
“I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.”

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