"To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past."

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Source : M.L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans: A Novel”, p.396, Simon and Schuster

M. L. Stedman

#Giving Up Quotes #Past Quotes #Kind Quotes

“We all die. It's just a question of when and how horrible it's going to be.”
“Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.”
“We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view.”

Source : Asa Gray (1973). “Letters of Asa Gray”
“Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms”
“We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.”
“Business is about profit, yes, and it is about more than profit. At its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.”
“The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.”

Source : Speech at the World Congress - Engineering and Digital Divide, Tunisia, October 14, 2003.
“I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!”

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