Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

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Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential. ― Jeannette Walls

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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. — Calvin Coolidge

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To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher. — Arthur Compton

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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

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There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. ― Booker T. Washington

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Through strength I found love in time I found myself in happiness with you. ― Alexis Jordan

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The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on. ― Charles Dickens

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It is most heartening to learn that young men and women, in their late teens and twenties, are increasingly attracted to meditative prayer in the Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. May all the faithful find in the Eucharist their source of strength and courage to imitate our Lady, totally open to his will in their daily lives. It is my hope that this devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist will spread to more and more parishes and dioceses across our nation. — John Joseph O'Connor

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If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. — Banksy

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