"If you think you can do it, you can."

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John Burroughs

#Life Quotes #Sports Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.”
“To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.”

Source : Donna Woolfolk Cross (2009). “Pope Joan: A Novel”, p.64, Broadway Books
“Every side of a coin has another side.”

Source : "Crash Course". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. May 14, 2009.
“In our childhoods we either get all the social and emotional and ethical skills we need to be well adjusted adults, or we don't. Some of us don't know how to tell someone we like them. A lot of us get depressed and get wasted. Why don't we do something that makes us feel better? Because we don't know any other way. When I didn't have enough skills I compensated with drugs and alcohol. It's like there was a hole in the wall and I put a poster over it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.”
“There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.”
“[Lenin] might have become a Maoist in the sense of attacking the party and bombarding the party headquarters out of necessity to change the whole thing around.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

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