"One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery."

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Source : "Wallace Stegner, the Rural West, and Me" by John McChesney, web.stanford.edu. July 05, 2011.

Wallace Stegner

#Optimistic Quotes #Home Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Iâ€™m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.”
“A longsuffering person will endure where others give up. He always thinks about how God has been longsuffering toward him, and he counts God's longsuffering as salvation. Longsuffering endures where no one else can endure, and it always hopes for a happy result at the end.”
“My face responds without authorization from my brain, so the resulting smile feels like the biggest, most unguarded, goofiest smile Iâ€™ve ever unleashed in my entire life. I didnâ€™t even know my face could do this. Itâ€™s like there were hidden zippers in my cheeks. Jesus. This must be what feelings are. This is why people write poems! I get it now. I get it, and I want more.”
“No. I really don't think I'm cool. I'm not.”

Source : "I really don't think I'm cool" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2008.
“Believe in yourself and believe in magic.”
“I'm a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the century, which is AIDS”
“FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.”
“Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.”

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