"Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course."

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Source : John Lukacs (1990). “Confessions of an original sinner”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

John Lukacs

#Forever Quotes #Matter Quotes #Brooms Quotes

“I chased money, pretended to be someone else to get it. It got easier the longer I did it... but that's the trap, see? When the deadness gets easier, you know you're sinking deeper, becoming dead yourself.”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2012). “Stolen”, p.102, Chicken House
“My doctors say the more I continue to push, the more I can continue to raise that bar, the better I can get.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“There is nothing to compare with the courage of ordinary people whose names are unknown and whose sacrifices pass unnoticed. The courage that dares without recognition, without the protection of media attention, is a courage that humbles and inspires and reaffirms our faith in humanity.”
“I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.”
“I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.”
“The greatest challenge of community life is to create synthesis, embracing diversity in a unified whole, resolving differences with the healing spirit of love and dedication to the good of the whole.”

Source : Corinne McLaughlin, Gordon Davidson (1985). “Builders of the Dawn: Community Lifestyles in a Changing World”
“I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.”
“After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.”

Source : "A conversation with U.S. Olympic gold medalist diver David Boudia". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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