"Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit"

-- Chip Heath

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“Strive always to excel in virtue and truth.”
“you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them all, or numb them into dense, leaden regret, but you can't kill love itself. love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die.”
“Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing.”
“I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.”
“Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.”
“Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.”

Source : "A home for Mr Naipaul". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.
“It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.”

Source : Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press
“I exercise most days.”

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