"the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend."

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Alice Duer Miller

#Adaptability Quotes #Strongest Quotes

“I like to say I had a very varied undergraduate education. I was an English major first, and then at the end of my college career I decided I was interested in urban planning. I became an urban studies major, with a minor in poetry. I don't think I knew what I was looking for in my early twenties, but I know I kept not finding it.”

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“I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.”
“The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.”
“What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?”
“Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Donâ€™t coast through life without a passion.”
“If liberals can seize our guns because they are dangerous, we have no chance of holding on to our cars and our homes. The total number of accidental fatalities (the majority of which are hunting accidents) of all types of firearms is infinitesimal compared to the number of fatalities from car and home accidents. More children die from playing with cigarette lighters than from playing with loaded guns.”
“It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.”
“There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.”

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