"Perhaps the seeds of redemption lay not just in perseverance, hard work, and rugged individualism. Perhaps they lay in something more fundamentalâ€”the simple notion of everyone pitching in and pulling together."

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Source : Daniel James Brown (2013). “The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics”, p.123, Penguin

Daniel James Brown

#Perseverance Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Simple Quotes

“God gives us health so that we may serve the sick.”
“The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.”

Source : "Maya Rudolph on the job you can do better than anyone else". www.today.com. May 10, 2011.
“Maybe that's what is means to be human . . . forever questioning our certainties.”
“Poetry is the scholar's art.”

Source : Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.248, Vintage
“Morning Glory's introduction to the magical ways of the Goddess, manifest in our time, has enlarged my understanding of Pagan ways, enriching my spirit and imagination.”
“Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.”
“A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.”

Source : "Heroic Reason" by Juan Ramón Jiménez (p. 231), 1957.
“The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.”

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