""Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence."

-- Robert Baden-Powell

#Men Quotes #Persistence Quotes #Monkeys Quotes

“I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.”
“I am an organization freak!”
“Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbableâ€”more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.”
“In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.”
“Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.”
“When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a LOT of muscle in high school. When I was a kid I did marshal arts, and then I did all-star crazy competitive cheer and dance, and then I swam so I was very muscular. You know, healthy, but not quite as thin as I am.”
“There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.”

Source : "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. "An Essay on Charity, and Charity-Schools", p. 345, 1732.

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