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“Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.”
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“Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.”
Source : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1997). “A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader”, p.131, U of Nebraska Press
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“It may be that it is only by the grace of granitization that we have continents to live on.”
Source : Herbert Harold Read (1957). “The Granite Controversy: Geological Addresses Illustrating the Evolution of a Disputant”, London, Murby
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“In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave it to you, you would only be tried for receiving, a crime punishable by forty lashes with the cat or the dog, whichever was handy. If you stole a dog and were caught, you were punished with twelve rabbit punches, although it was hard to find rabbits big enough or strong enough to punch you.”
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“And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds and I was falling like a stone, that they had wings and I would never have any.”
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“If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security ‘benefits,’ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit”
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“Now, let us all take a deep breath and forge on into the future; knitting at the ready.”
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“The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.”
