"Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls."

Persistence, Skepticism

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"Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls."

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"When you get a pinch and decide to give up, you will get a cut when you eventually do so. The consequences of giving up are more harmful than the causes. Just don't give up!"

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"One step and then another and the longest walk is ended. One stitch and then another and the longest rent is mended. One brick upon another and the tallest wall is made. One flake and then another and the deepest snow is laid."

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"Get this; without a continuous struggle, your previous struggles will become a waste. Stay on and hold on until the success become evident."

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"I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of man's puny, inexhaustible, voice still talking! ...not simply because man alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because man has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice and endurance."

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