"At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed windowâ€“do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physicaly capable of no more,or does it eventualy learn after one crash too many that there is no way out? At what point do you decide that enough is enough?"

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Source : "Forbidden". Book by Tabitha Suzuma, 2010.

Tabitha Suzuma

#Giving Up Quotes #Survival Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Convictions do not imply reasons.”
“Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.”
“An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.”
“In the hacking world, security is more of a response than a proactive measure. They wait for hackers to attack and then they patch, based on the attacks.”
“To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week's newspapers.”
“Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.”

Source : Sarah Vowell (2008). “The Wordy Shipmates”, p.33, Penguin
“All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.”
“The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor the inappreciation of the public. These are all a part of the great game of life. To meet them and overcome them and not to go down before them in disgust, discouragement or defeat-that is the final proof of power”

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