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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#bough #dead #drop #ever #felt

One is my club, I want to develop those players, and I want to be in the beginning at least, until I have everything ready, I want to spend as much time to develop those kids as possible. ↗

— Thomas Dooley

#club #develop #everything #i #in the beginning

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#although #antiquated #begun #course #had

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#because #conceal #exist #express #fail

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change. ↗

— Kenneth Kaunda

#consciences #force #great #inability #leading

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#cannot #delegate #responsibility #you

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#able #dare #given #lower #matters

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. ↗