"Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish."

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Scott Jurek

#Accomplish Quotes

“There is an old story about the boy at Eton who committed suicide. The other boys in his house were gathered together and asked if any of them could suggest a reason for the tragedy. After a long silence a small boy in the front put up his hand: 'Could it have been the food, sir?”
“Bringing an end to mass government surveillance needs to be a central pillar of returning to the principles we have put in jeopardy in the early 21st century.”

Source : "How the NSA and FBI foil weak oversight" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2013.
“If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights.”
“There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. Theres a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.”
“I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused. The dislike of philosophy is perennial, and the seeds of the condemnation of Socrates are present at all times, not in the bosoms of pleasure-seekers, who don't give a damn, but in those of high-minded and idealistic persons who do not want to submit their aspirations to examination.”

Source : "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 19, 1990.
“I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 4, 2002.
“A celebration of insignificance, Is that all we are in the end? And one day Iâ€™ll just be one more of those faces, frozen in death and wonder”
“The names of the plants ought to be stable [certa], consequently they should be given to stable genera.”

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