"The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?"

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“Big book, a big bore.”
“In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.”
“Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.”

Source : "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 134, 1929.
“Dreams, they're what sets us apart from being mere a brain and a body.”
“a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children.”
“Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.”

Source : Isobelle Carmody, Nan McNab (2011). “The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)”, p.4, Allen & Unwin
“She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.”
“If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God.”

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