"Defeat is simply a signal to press onward."

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Helen Keller

#Bad Day Quotes #Defeat Quotes #Signals Quotes

“It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.”
“Marriage is only good for two things: tax breaks and adultery.”
“If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.”
“This treadmill lifestyle ain't workin for me... It's from ya crib to ya lab to ya job to make a profit, And at the day's end you still got nothing accomplished.”
“This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.”
“I don't really feel much more confident than I did the last couple years. I've always felt like I have a pretty good knuckleball. I worked hard to do that.?”
“Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.”

Source : "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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