"We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence.……" — Martin Seligman

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• The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has… — Dan Jenkins
• Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. — Euripides
• In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience… — Cal Thomas
• The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may… — George Santayana
• I always tell people that I'll sound exactly like Alanis Morissette after I've had more boyfriends. I'll be just as… — Michelle Branch
• The cumulative weight of all mortal sins--past, present, and future--pressed upon that perfect, sinless, and sensitive Soul! All our infirmities… — Neal A. Maxwell
• Believe in miracles. I have seen so many of them come when every other indication would say that hope was… — Jeffrey R. Holland
• I pull back, gasping for breath. Reeling. His breath is ragged, and I place my hands on his cheeks to… — Stephanie Perkins
• I haven't seen American Sniper, but correct me if I'm wrong: An occupier mows down faceless Iraqis but the real… — Max Blumenthal
• Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space. — Richard Corliss
• Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for… — Minor White
• In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront… — Jacqueline Rose

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