"The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger."

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Source : DAVID STARR JORDAN (1896). “THE CARE AND CULTURE OF MEN”

David Starr Jordan

#Strength Quotes #Men Quotes #Stronger Quotes

“The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.”
“Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.”
“I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.”
“Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”
“I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history”
“I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.”
“Poor maids have more lovers than husbands.”
“The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.”

Source : "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, November 6, 2003.

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