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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Determination

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.
A thick skin is a gift from God.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.
Construct your Determination with Sustained Effort, Controlled Attention, and Concentrated Energy. opportunities never come to those who wait... they are captured by those who dare to attack.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
Determination that just won't quit -- that's what it takes.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.


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