"You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day."

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Marian Wright Edelman

#Success Quotes #Winning Quotes #History Quotes

“The first rule of my speaking is: listen!”
“Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.”
“I believe that the future for a more effective, more efficient way of approaching the challenges Europe is facing is going to be more properly and more effectively handled and seen through the member states.”
“Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.”
“If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.”
“People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.”
“The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changingâ€¦ not for a little while, at least.”
“Dark clouds outside are no match to the bright smiles of volunteers at the GK relief center. Hope shines brightest in darkness. Miracles of solidarity can help a nation walk on water.”

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