"Our domestic problems are for the most part economic. We have our enormous debt to pay, and we are paying it. We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it. We have a heavy burden of taxation to reduce, and we are reducing it. But while remarkable progress has been made in these directions, the work is yet far from accomplished."

-- Calvin Coolidge

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“I am a big guy and happen to play a position that requires you to be relatively quick. I can't let up now. I have to work every day to be better next year.”
“Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.”
“I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.”
“I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the worst public schools in Baltimore, with kids most people would write off because of their backgrounds. But, when I set high expectations, at the end of the day, these kids went from scoring at the bottom on standardized tests, to scoring at the top, despite their unfortunate circumstances.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.”
“Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.”

Source : "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book III, ch. 5), 1688.
“Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and others - alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.”
“A final word of advice: don't gloat about how well you have done.”

Source : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.130, Harvard University Press

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