“ If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again; Then your courage should appear; For, if you will persevere, You will conquer; never fear; Try, try again. ”
- McGuffey’s Second Reader- Copy
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“ It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over. ”
- Edna St. Vincent Millay- Copy
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“ Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
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“ The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. ”
- Frederic Raphael- Copy
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“ Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. ”
- Ashleigh Brilliant- Copy
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“ When you blame others, you give up your power to change. - Dr. Robert Anthony. ”
- Dr. Robert Anthony- Copy
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“ You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist. ”
- Anne Lamott- Copy
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“ Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
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“ If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences. ”
- Lord Milner- Copy
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“ I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing. - The Friends of Voltaire. ”
- S. G. Tallentyre- Copy
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“ These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't. ”
- Dylan Thomas- Copy
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“ Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. ”
- Joseph Campbell- Copy
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“ Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way. ”
- Ani DiFranco- Copy
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“ The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ Most things are praised or condemned only because it is fashionable to praise or condemn them. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it. ”
- Georges Bernanos- Copy
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“ No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it… ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell. ”
- William Strunk Jr.- Copy
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