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		Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Og Mandino 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Pat Buchanan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Caitlyn Jenner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Floyd Skloot 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zaha Hadid 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				N. Scott Momaday 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Francine Pascal 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Art Modell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, 'What'd I do? What'd I do?' And he said, 'Whatever it is, go back and do it again.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Elvis Presley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Tidiness ... makes life easier and more agreeable, does harm to no one and actually saves time and trouble to the person who practices it: there must be an ominous flaw to explain why millions of generations continue to reject it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Freya Stark 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The time will come when every change shall cease,
This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:
No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze;
Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now shall ever last. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Petrarch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All that I have managed to accomplish, and all that I hope to accomplish, has been and will be by that plodding, patient, persevering process which builds the ant heap, particle by particle, thought by thought, step by step. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Og Mandino