"Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent."

-- Steve Martin

#Perseverance Quotes #Talent Quotes #Substitutes Quotes

“A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.”
“General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York”
“He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.”
“The prophet who misses it occasionally in his prophecies may be ignorant, immature, or presumptuous, or he may be ministering with too much zeal and too little wisdom and anointing. But this does not prove him a false prophet. It is certainly possible for a true prophet to be inaccurate.”
“By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.”
“We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.”
“I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.”
“Thus we can see that â€“ at least at the level of economics â€“ democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those who want to rob you.”

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