"I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. ."

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Bernard Baruch

#Son Quotes #Effort Quotes #Spurs Quotes

“Worship is admiration becoming adoration.”
“Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.”
“Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists are trying to wreck amendments as we speak.”

Source : "Sandbagged: Dealing a blow to carbon trading" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2008.
“Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.”
“Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Jun 04, 2013
“We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.”
“You will never have a better friend than a friend who points you to Christ.”
“Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.”

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