"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."

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Source : Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.480, The Floating Press

Samuel Smiles

#Adversity Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Sorrow Quotes

“Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art.”
“Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.”
“I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.”
“Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life.”
“Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.”

Source : Interview with Norman Ross, November 17, 1957.
“And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me? Don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.”
“Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.”

Source : Jim George (2015). “A Man After God's Own Heart: Updated and Expanded”, p.157, Harvest House Publishers
“Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge to improve life, and a sense of awe before the mysteries of existence. However, by the standards of conventional religion, Dewey was an atheist.”

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