"The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work."

-- Thomas A. Edison

#Success Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.”
“Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.”
“The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.”

Source : "The Greatest Misallocation of Resources in the History of the World". "Placemakers" with Rebecca Sheir, www.slate.com. November 7, 2016.
“How can I be my best if I never fail, and how can I ever find peace if I never yell.”
“Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?”
“self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.”

Source : Vivian Gornick (1978). “Essays in feminism”, HarperCollins Publishers
“If you believe in justice, if you believe in democracy, if you believe in people's rights, if you believe in the harmony of all humankind - then you have no choice but to back Fidel Castro as long as it takes!”
“When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?”

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