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“Staring in the darkness, trying to sleep. My body was aching with tiredness. My limbs were numb. My sightless eyes were crazed with light/ I was dying of oblivion, but it wouldn't come. I didn't think I've ever sleep again.”
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“Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.”
Source : David Greenberg (2006). “Calvin Coolidge: The American Presidents Series: The 30th President, 1923-1929”, p.20, Macmillan
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“They say of us that we are an anti-Christian movement. They even say that I am an outspoken paganist.... I solemnly declare here, before the German public, that I stand on the basis of Christianity, but I declare just as solemnly that I will put down every attempt to introduce confessional matters into our Hitler Youth.”
Source : "The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945". Book by Richard Steigmann-Gall, 2003.
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“I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself.”
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“The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.”
Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)”
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“When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest selves.”
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“I swam a little bit in high school but I wasn't a jock.”