"If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#Men Quotes #Yield Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.”

Source : "Vice President George Bush today joked that Geraldine Ferraro's..." by Ira R. Allen, www.upi.com. August 22, 1984.
“The future struggles that it may not become the past.”
“My objective is to satisfy [my] audience so they come back the next day.”
“If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.”
“With good planning, Africa can have cities, farms, factories, export processing zones. But if the political will is there, the huge areas - the Serengeti, the Okavango, the Kalahari, Kruger - these wonderful, huge places for wildlife could still be set aside and protected, and be treasures for humanity for many generations to come.”
“Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.”

Source : Edward Eggleston (1874). “The Circuit Rider: A Tale of the Heroic Age”, p.128
“Last time I failed is when I fell in love with distractions.”
“We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.”

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