"It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible."

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Thomas Keneally

#Art Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Abandon Quotes

“What you were yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will be tomorrow.”

Source : Helen Eustis (2015). “The Horizontal Man: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.8, Library of America
“... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.”
“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.”
“It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.”
“The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival,”
“If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.”
“And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?”
“If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? Why is 'phonics' not spelled the way it sounds? How come abbreviated is such a long word?”

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