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"The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life."
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"No matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning-So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
"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!"
"I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off."
"To succeed even once you have to try at least once."
"Without discipline you would not go far in life."
"Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions."
"It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race."
"Opportunity may come to the patient, but always comes to the persistent."
"Perhaps you are just close to what you have been waiting for all along and ideas start formulating in your mind and advising you to "give up". Tell them "not me"."
"What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended."
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"There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out."
"This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you."
"But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat."
"I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being an ordinary, dull little Swiss village. But now Jack Harper's come and shaken me up, and there are snowflakes all over the place, whirling around until I don't know what I think anymore. And bits of glitter, too. Tiny bits of shiny, secret excitement."
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