One of the things I could ...

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.
One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.
 James Joyce

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

Quotes from the same author

Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the Greek warriors around Troy, and King of Ithaca. He was subjected to many trials, but with wisdom and courage came through them all.... he is a complete man as well, a good man.
 James Joyce
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.
 James Joyce
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
 James Joyce
When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.
 James Joyce
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
 James Joyce