"It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them."

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Source : FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from May 29, 2011

Rick Bragg

#Success Quotes #Common Quotes #Poor Quotes

“How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?”
“When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.”
“Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.”
“Ideas are just a multiplier of execution.”
“Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.”
“Hi," he says. "I'm Daniel." "Hi," I reply. "I'm June.”
“Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.”

Source : "Discovering the cosmos". Book by R.C. Bless, p. 686, 1996.
“We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."”

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