"No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life."

-- Orison Swett Marden

#Mistake Quotes #Men Quotes #Long Quotes

“He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.”
“In my hood, I was always with the older guys, but I like everybody's music.”
“Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.”
“When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'”
“When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.”
“Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time”
“Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.”
“Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have an American publisher and agent.”

Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

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