"Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught."

-- Pat Summitt

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“The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower than most people are willing to. It chips away a person's dreams to the point that the hopelessness shows through, and the dreamer accepts that hard work and borrowed houses are all this life will ever be.”

Source : Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.25, Vintage
“I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.”

Source : "Dances with frogs", www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2003.
“Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.”
“Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.”
“That's what interests me in poetry. That withholding, that white space, the pressure, and my long-term faith in violent concision, is still with me.”
“We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.”

Source : David Bottoms (1980). “Shooting rats at the Bibb County Dump”, William Morrow &Company
“The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.”
“People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.”

Source : Jonathan Mayhew (1764). “Remarks on an Anonymous Tract, Entitled An Answer to Dr. Mayhew's Observations on the Charter and Conduct of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: Being a Second Defence of the Said Observations. By Jonathan Mayhew, D.D. Pastor of the West-Church in Boston”, p.62

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