"Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action."

-- Cordell Hull

#Gratitude Quotes #Appreciation Quotes #Disappointment Quotes

“I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.”
“I don't believe in the landscape.”
“So what? You're another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for?”
“I don't really have a life philosophy; my thing is just rebelling against pretty much organized religion. That is my main thing, because personally I think it's a crutch for people that are too weak to get through life on their own. I'm the kind of guy that says if I don't see it, then it doesn't work. And nobody can show me God.”
“There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.”
“The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.”

Source : "Nicholas Stern: We must not give in to pessimism" by James Randerson, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2009.
“Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.”
“I didn't always have friends so I am careful to take care of them.”

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