"If I can take it, I can make it."

--

Louis Zamperini

“Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.”
“Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.”
“The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.”
“A window looks outside, but a painting should do the opposite - it should look inside of us. When I put them in the middle of the room, I attach the paintings at the top to the ceiling and on the bottom to the floor. I prefer this to just hanging them from the ceiling because it creates a place in a space, like a wall.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.”

Source : "The World's Great Speeches". Book edited by Lewis Copeland and Lawrence Lamm, 1958.
“It's what runners do. We keep on keeping on”
“I don't want to change. I haven't done it before, I won't do it now.”
“Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.”

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