"Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself."

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Source : Jacob Neusner (1984). “How to grade your professors, and other unexpected advice”, Beacon Press (MA)

Jacob Neusner

#Life Quotes #Believe Quotes #People Quotes

“As far as I can remember, I have always wanted everything from life, everything it can possibly give me. This desire separates me from people who are willing to settle for less. I cannot even comprehend how people's desires can be small, ambitions narrow and limited, when the possibilities are endless”

Source : Deborah Feldman (2012). “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots”, p.2, Simon and Schuster
“To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.”

Source : 1987 Quiddities,'Definition'.
“Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming...”
“I ain't a thug - how much Tupac in you you got?”
“There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.”

Source : Charles Eliot Norton (1913). “Letters of Charles Eliot Norton”
“I'm the type of pitcher that definitely gets stronger and better adjusted to the batters as the season goes on.”
“If you choose to lead your life just like everyone else, then what exactly is it that you have to offer?”
“Every actor has their stalker.”

Source : "Conventions: Another day at the office for celebs" by Suzanne Kelly, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2010.

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