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"It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating."
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"The number one skill in life is not giving up."
"Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed."
"The third level of prayer, which is much more serious is knocking."
"No matter how hard things get, you owe it to yourself to always find a way to persist and persevere until you are greatly rewarded for all your pain and sufferings."
"He slept that night the sleep of a successfully stubborn man."
"The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery."
"I think people give up, because it's the easy option, but my goodness; why would giving up be easy? Your living your life chasing anything to fill the void of what came about when you let go of everything that mattered? I'd rather fight like mad, for everything that will ever matter, because giving in to anything that doesn't will never cure the dream."
"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."
"Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing."
"Don't give up searching."
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