"The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in."

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Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.14

Edwin Percy Whipple

#Perseverance Quotes #Strong Quotes #Caves Quotes

“It's something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul.”
“I think people who believe that life emerged naturalistically need to have a great deal more faith than people who reasonably infer that there's an Intelligent Designer.”

Source : Lee Strobel (2009). “The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God”, p.51, Harper Collins
“Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays of dots, and they show the same abilities we find in 5- year- old Boston children.”
“I think of my studio as a vegetable garden, where things follow their natural course. They grow, they ripen. You have to graft. You have to water.”
“For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.”
“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.”
“There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.”
“If you climbed one step, it means you can climb the rest.”

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