"A motto I've adopted is, if at first……" — Billy Collins

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This quote is filed under Adopted Quotes, one of 328 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted… — Charles Babbage
• The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. — Robert Baden-Powell
• The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the… — George Bancroft
• Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first… — Sarah Bernhardt
• My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. — Anthony Bourdain
• I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I… — Anthony Bourdain
• In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted… — Anthony Bourdain
• I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught… — Jimmy Carter
• I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a… — Madonna Ciccone
• I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And… — Kelly Clarkson
• The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and… — James A. Baldwin
• this last establishment will probably be within a mile of Charlottesville, and four from Monticello, if the system should be… — Thomas Jefferson

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