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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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He is every other inch a gentleman.
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Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.
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It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca West
Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
Rebecca West