I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories. - Jesmyn Ward

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We have to inspire people and give them a sense of hope. We have to bring people along, not ridicule and tear them down. — Masai Ujiri, president of the Toronto Raptors

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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. — Ray Bradbury

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Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!' -Donald Trump

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Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things. - Heraclitus

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No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. - Heraclitus

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The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down. ― Stephen Richards

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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. -Winston Churchill

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The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down. - Stephen Richards

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To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do. - Heraclitus

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