"The only really fatal element in defeat is the resolution not to try again."

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Source : John Henry Jowett (1916). “The Whole Armour of God”

John Henry Jowett

#Trying Quotes #Elements Quotes #Defeat Quotes

“Culture isn't all just about what can be tweaked and twitched in the simplest possible way. As people move around, they literally don't see what's around them, because they're wedded to earworms that are burrowing into their heads endlessly in a kind of negotiation with these tiny screens.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.”
“If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.”
“It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.”
“As soon as I was born, my mom said I was humming 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' or something like that, you know? It's in the family. And in that neighborhood [Treme, in New Orleans], I think everybody in the neighborhood has some type of musical influence, even if they don't play instruments or anything. It's the way they talk to you, the way they say your name - it's all musical.”
“I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.”
“If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.”

Source : "Journalists must stop being in denial: bloggers are here to stay" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2005.
“What unites us, is much greater than what divides us.”

Source : "Paul McCartney signs letter urging Scotland to stick with UK" by Laura Smith-Spark, www.cnn.com. September 2, 2014.

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