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“Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”
Source : "City Aphorisms: First Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.
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“I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.”
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“Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.”
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“Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.”
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“Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee?”
Source : Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.285
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“NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.”
Source : "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 01, 2004. 
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“We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.”
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“The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.”
Source : Gerrit Smith (1837). “Letter of Gerrit Smith to Rev. James Smylie: Of the State of Mississippi”, p.10
