#mina

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#alone #common #determination #educated #education

George Lucas doesn't have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he'd never do it again. ↗

— Francis Ford Coppola

#george #george lucas #just #lucas #making

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#between #cousins #deterioration #determination #detest

Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journey is not towards that. If it happens it will be a blast. If it doesn't, it's still been a blast. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#been #blast #happens #i #journey

In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

#done #eliminate #events #health #healthcare

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#discrimination #every #exists #fight #form

It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#anything #before #cannot #demonstrable #evident

I try not to discriminate against genres. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#discriminate #genres #i #try

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true. ↗

— Ted Danson

#been #believe #created #dominate #evolution

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil? ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#christians #decades #evil #exterminate #give