"No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else."

-- Orison Swett Marden

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“a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into the father's grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness.”

Source : Constance Fenimore Woolson (2012). “Anne: A Novel”, p.129, The Floating Press
“I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.”
“A hundred thousand men were led By one calf near three centuries dead; They followed still his crooked way And lost a hundred years a day; For thus such reverence is lent To well established precedent.”

Source : Sam Walter Foss (1895). “Whiffs from Wild Meadows”
“Dreams do come true, believe always. I dreamt every night of becoming a singer”
“Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.”

Source : 'To Richard Fanshaw' (1648)
“In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.”
“There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months) by a known pedophile and his four perverse friends, and the news broke of the bodies of two children, dead after long-term physical abuse, found in a storage locker in California. What hardest for me is, I suppose, what's hardest for my country”
“When the newly formed middle class in China begins to perceive its interests and discovers the value of the rule of law, the existing power structure will lose its foundation. It is a process that no government can put a stop to in the long term. That also applies to some Arab countries, with some limitations. But we have to be patient. In the 1980s, nobody expected that the freedom movement in Poland would lead to the collapse of entire Eastern Bloc. That's why it would be a huge mistake were we to believe that authoritarian systems were indestructible.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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