"My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow."

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Source : Julian Castro's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

Julian Castro

#Grandmother Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget.”
“The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured.”
“One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.”
“I needed targets, different things to go for on a daily basisâ€”a distance on the treadmill or a weight goal. Without them, I wasn't celebrating myself enough, and I got really good at beating myself up.”
“Make it your moment-to-moment aim to recognize the difference between being aware of your thoughts, and being carried along by them.”

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“SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.”

Source : "How long is the average Internet discussion forum posting?". Philip Greenspun's Weblog, blogs.harvard.edu. March 7, 2005.
“They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.”
“When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job, I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.”

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