"The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget."

-- David McCullough

#Country Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Years Quotes

“I think of everything that I want to say and then I think of the way that I can say it most precisely. And this has to do with poetry too, to me, that poetry helps me focus on the details of language.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“Bernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value people place on money.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.184, Macmillan
“One of the biggest reasons I bought the Lakers was to beat the Celtics.”
“As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.”
“How does God deal with your bitter heart? He reminds you that what you have is more important than what you don't have. You still have your relationship with God. No one can take that.”
“Al Gore won the popular vote and didn't get elected president, so I'm not going to sit here and kill myself over not winning Defensive Player of the Year.”

Source : "Warriors’ Green second in Defensive Player voting". www.eastbaytimes.com. April 23, 2015.
“When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.”
“Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate of loss of human memory.”

Source : Jerome S. Bruner (2006). “In Search of Pedagogy Volume I: The Selected Works of Jerome Bruner, 1957-1978”, p.46, Routledge

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