"Pride is the rope God allows us all."

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Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.89, Atlantic Monthly Press

Leif Enger

#Pride Quotes #Rope Quotes

“There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.”
“Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.”
“Perhaps it was freedom itself that choked her.”
“Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try to apply to the new one. And it doesn't work.”
“I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.”

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“And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.”
“A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.”
“I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.”

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