"The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins- an ingenious display that encouraged vigor in his students, as well as nicely keeping out the drafts."

-- Jonathan Stroud

#Wall Quotes #Skins Quotes #Vigor Quotes

“If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.”
“Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.”
“No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters. That matters because we don't run this country for corporations, we run it for people.”
“I think the biggest single thing that causes difficulty in the business world is the short-term view. We become obsessed with it. But it forces bad decisions.”
“You ainâ€™t dead yet, so you ainâ€™t done.”
“Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking.”
“The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.”
“Without repeating everything that we have already mentioned, it is appropriate first of all to emphasize the following point: for the Church, the first means of evangelization is the witness of an authentically Christian life, given over to God in a communion that nothing should destroy and at the same time given to one's neighbor with limitless zeal. As we said recently to a group of lay people, â€œModern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.”

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