"I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life."

-- Heber J. Grant

#Believe Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Battle Quotes

“No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.”

Source : Ann Dumas, Edgar Degas (1996). “Degas As a Collector”
“It's the family you choose that counts.”
“Every day I think about where I come from and I am still proud to be who I am: first, a Kabyle from La Castellane, then an Algerian from Marseille, and then a Frenchman.”

Source : 2004 Explaining his identity-his father was a Berber from the Kabylie region of Algeria and Zidane grew up in the Marseille suburb of La Castellane. In the Observer, 4 Apr.
“... you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...”

Source : Neal Stephenson (2010). “Anathem”, p.73, Atlantic Books Ltd
“The British government needs to bring its system in Ireland under control.”
“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”
“On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.”
“The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.”

Source : "The awful thing about getting it right the first time is that nobody realizes how hard it was". www.jwz.org. April 27, 2014.

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