"What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better."

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Source : Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.282

Wendell Phillips

#Education Quotes #Sports Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I'm an actress, model, and singer.”
“Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men”
“I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything, I just knew that I loved dancing.”
“If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening”

Source : "Jamal Lewis: First And Ten". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. September 24, 2003.
“The moment clients realize that revisions are not an all-you-can-eat buffet, suddenly they realize they are not hungry.”
“Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.”
“Chilli ice cream doesn't taste bad. But I wouldn't eat it again.”
“There are a lot of chapters to the banjo's history. Part of it are the roots in Africa, where it's a more primitive instrument. Then it comes to the United States where it morphs into the slave music that they created here, which was very African in origin.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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