"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."

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Source : Harry Emerson Fosdick (1941). “Living under tension: sermons on Christianity today”

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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“Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809.”

Source : John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1873). “Christopher Carson: Familiarly Known as Kit Carson”, p.9
“Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.”

Source : "Not just a chick thing". Interview with Simon Braund, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2002.
“I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.”
“Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.”

Source : Quoted in Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love, Sappho Was a Right-OnWoman (1972). This saying, from a 1970 speech, is usually quoted, "Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice."
“Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: 'Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors.' Everyone knows this.”
“As long as we have all these conflicts, it is the women who will continue to suffer, so that is one reason why I guess as women we should really work for peace, because we know how painful wars can be to us and our daughters.”
“This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.”
“Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.”

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