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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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We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Iris Murdoch
There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it dies when the frosts begin, and the young spiders live through the cold by eating their mother's dead body. One can't believe that's an accident. I don't know that I imagined God as having thought it all out, but somehow He was connected with the pattern, He was the pattern.
Iris Murdoch
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Iris Murdoch
until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.
Iris Murdoch
