"If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time."

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Source : Linda Ellerbee (2005). “Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table”, Putnam Adult

Linda Ellerbee

#Believe Quotes #Heart Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . .”
“ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.”
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”

Source : Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.277
“The Obama Administration has embraced the policies of George W. Bush, and then gone much further. Wall Street bailouts went ballistic under Obama-$700 billion under Bush, but $4.5 trillion under Obama, plus another $16 trillion in zero-interest loans for Wall Street.”
“The poet is like the prince of clouds Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer; Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers, His giant wings prevent him from walking.”
“It is the teaching of the Bible and of sound Political ethics that the education of children belongs to the sphere of the family and is the duty of the parents. The theory that the children of the Commonwealth are the charge of the Commonwealth is a pagan one, derived from heathen Sparta and PlatoÃs heathen republic, and connected by regular, logical sequence with legalized prostitution and the dissolution of the conjugal tie.”
“As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.”
“So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.”

Source : Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.

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