"We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat."

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Source : Presidential address to the AFPFL Supreme Council Session, August, 1946.

Aung San

#Effort Quotes #Preparation Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“No, no, no to Tallyho.”
“You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.”

Source : "Canada Inside Out". Book by David Olive, 2012.
“Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.”
“It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.”
“What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual, and that when the naturally better element controls the worse then the man is said to be "master of himself", as a term of praise. But when - as a result of bad upbringing or bad company one s better element is overpowered by the numerical superiority of one s worse impulses, then one is criticized for not being master of oneself and for lack of self control.”
“Kings that made laws, first broke 'em ...”

Source : Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.2843, Delphi Classics
“I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.”
“Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.”

Source : Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.13, Harvard University Press

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