"Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world."

-- Tom Clancy

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“You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.”
“When you understand the purpose [of life], then you can deal and journey through the obstacles, the rejections, the stops and starts, highs-and-lows with a different lens because you know that you're moving in what you're supposed to do.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.”

Source : George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.32, Booklassic
“Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign”

Source : Speech in House of Commons, 17 May 1628
“Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it, and it will die. But leave it to thrive in the soil, untouched, and it will weather both gods and winds. It is born with the soil, and it will live so long as the soil shall live.”
“If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.”
“It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.”
“I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive â€“ those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood.”

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