"What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor."

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Source : Pauli Murray (1987). “Song in a weary throat: an American pilgrimage”, Harpercollins

Pauli Murray

#Endeavor Quotes #Ability Quotes #Exceptional Quotes

“Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound”

Source : Max Picard (1963). “Man and Language”
“Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.”
“Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.”
“The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.”
“Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.”
“[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.”
“If God is the author of life, there must be a script.”
“Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.”

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