"For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned underground. Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility."

-- Ralph Ellison

#Country Quotes #Attitude Quotes #Hard Work Quotes

“For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I could find. Same exact thing every night, night after night. Total silence. Absolutely nothing. That's why I chose it. I know for a fact nothing bad can happen to me in here.”

Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.15, Vintage
“The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.”

Source : Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.313, Agate Digital
“The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.”
“I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.”
“the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.”

Source : Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”
“The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.”
“Truth was the only daughter of Time.”
“Before we return to Heaven, our real home, we have an incredible opportunity on Earth to face challenges that will help us learn, grow and to become more Christ-like in the fruits of our spirit.”

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