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James Whitcomb Riley Quotes

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

James Whitcomb Riley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: October 7, 1849 - July 22, 1916

Topics

Determination Persistence Man Effort

You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.

Love Trust Someone You Drunk Office

I really like Larry Clark's films, as weird as that is. I like Richard Kern films.

Weird Like Really Richard Clark

We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left hand came from another star.

Blood Hand Right Years Out Up

We are fortunate people. It is our need and responsibility to help our fellow man.

Responsibility Man People Help Need

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?

Decision Woman Man Sleep Privacy

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

Heart People You Done Ask Always

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Man Deep Hell Fence Heaven Place

Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate.

Words Animal Ideas Computers Search

I had a great time at Michigan State, but no four years will compare to Saginaw High.

Great Time Will Years High Four

I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.

Good Feeling Place Said Month Final

The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city's understated elegance.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

Style City Elegance Street Stockholm

The hierarchy shouldn't fear what we're doing.

William P. Leahy

Fear Doing Hierarchy

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