"When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world."

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Source : Edwin Paxton Hood (1859). “Bind Amos and his velvet principles”, p.153

Edwin Paxton Hood

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“Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.”
“To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.”
“Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.”
“THE KNOWN CHILD I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they'd been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to the known child.”
“I do not believe the promises of the Declaration of Independence are just for the strong, the independent, the healthy. They are for everyone-including unborn children. We are a society with enough compassion and wealth and love to care for both mothers and their children, to seek the promise and potential in every life.”
“Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.”
“Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived at a stage in life so rich in new perceptions that cannot be transmitted to those at another stage - one feels at the same time full of so much gentleness and so much despair - the enigma of this life grows, grows, drowns one and crushes one, then all of a sudden in a supreme moment of light one becomes aware of the sacred.”
“There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.”

Source : Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.155, Crown Business

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