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"Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty; never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

"When you find yourself going through Hell, keep going."
                                
- WINSTON CHURCHILL
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did. "

- T.E. LAWRENCE

"I am constantly asked: What can you, with your cold rationalism, offer to the seeker after salvation that is comparable to the cozy, homelike comfort of a fenced-in dogmatic creed?"

- BERTRAND RUSSELL
in The Impact of Science on Society


"Duty is the essence of manhood."

- GEORGE S. PATTON

"It ain't about how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

- SYLVESTER STALLONE, as Rocky,
in the movie Rocky Balboa

"Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be."

- AMBROSE BIERCE
in his Town Crier column

"There comes a time in a man's life when he makes a decision - to just live, survive, or he wants to win."

- TEDDY ATLAS

"It's not important to get children to read. Children who want to read are gonna read, kids who wanna learn to read are gonna learn to read, much more important to teach children to question what they read, children should be taught to question everything, to question everything they read, everything they hear."

- GEORGE CARLIN



"To be interesting, be interested."

"Be hearty in your approbation, and lavish in your praise" (paraphrasing Charles Schwab)

- DALE CARNEGIE

​"Now we say: modernity is born dead, reasoning is futile, salvation is in the form. 

Fine discoveries.

Salvation is in the imagination: if I were a government minister I would set up a hundred Schools of Imagination in Italy."

- PIERO FORNASETTI