"He never gave up on me, I only stopped being matriculated."

-- Mary Karr

#Gave Up Quotes

“The Googly thing is to launch products early on Google Labs and then iterate, learning what the market wants - and making it great. The beauty of experimenting in this way is that you never get too far from what the market wants. The market pulls you back.”
“Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.”

Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “Now Is the Hour”, p.419, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.”
“I'm a huge Dallas Mavs fan. What I love about Dirk Nowitzki is he has just as much talent as everyone else, if not more, and he never toots his own horn. He's this silent warrior.”
“She only is chaste, who is chaste where there is no danger of detection: she who does not, because she may not, does.”
“The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew the truth would be wicked. I disbelieve this, absolutely and entirely. I believe that love of truth is the basis of all real virtue, and that virtues based upon lies can only do harm.”
“When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.”
“The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.”

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