"We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth."

-- Shirley Franklin

#Past Quotes #Trying Quotes #Connections Quotes

“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.”
“You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.”
“I'm always fearful. â€¦ Fear generates in you a huge energy. You can use it. When I feel that mounting fear, I think, 'Oh, yes, there it is!' It's like petrol.”
“I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.”
“The quintessential exercise of free speech in a culture supposedly built on that concept and dedicated to it, the Internet's development is as historically important to humanity perhaps even more so as Gutenberg 's invention of the printing press.”
“As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity.”
“There are stereotypes - it's like an invisible line, but somehow you have to find the energy to be strong, to be super-confident, no matter if you are in front of the president of the U.S. or anyone else.”
“Ilene Weiss and I went to Girls High together.”

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