"Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“To all the kids out there: Follow your dream. Believe in your dream. Because dreams do come true.”

Source : Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Speech, delivered 26 July 2009, Cooperstown, OH
“Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.”
“Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.”
“Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.”

Source : Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.132, Vintage
“Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d'oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she has built a following of loyal customers who really hope she's right. If she's wrong, says Sonia, no one wants to know. (Thwonk)”
“Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.”
“Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.”

Source : P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.43, Applewood Books
“Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.”

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