"Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up."

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Source : "Message to Graduates: 'Be a Good Ancestor'" by Samantha Power, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2008.

Samantha Power

#Wisdom Quotes #Spring Quotes #Human Nature Quotes

“Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that mankind with writing is superhuman compared to mankind before writing.”
“Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.”
“Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before. Not two thoughts, or five - just one. So decide what single point you want to leave in the reader's mind.”
“Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.”
“By nature I will find hope in everything. Even if it's the most incredibly hopeless situation or circumstance. That's just me... I'll never be able to see things any other way.”
“One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.”

Source : Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.257, Random House
“Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.”

Source : Heywood Broun, Margaret Leech (1927). “Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord”
“Tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, Just be true to who you are”

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