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December 2020 Countdown – December 31!

“Stand for something or you will fall for anything.  Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.”

Rosa Parks

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December 2020 Countdown – December 30!

“If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind.  If you don’t, you’re simply ducking your responsibilities.”

Ann Richards

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December 2020 Countdown – December 29!

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.  Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.  They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.”

Frederick Douglass

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December 2020 Countdown – December 28!

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

Gabriel García Márquez

Image: Tomás Sánchez, “Aislarse”

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December 2020 Countdown – December 27!

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Image: El Capitan, Yosemite National Park

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December 2020 Countdown – December 14!

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

Winston Churchill

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Retro Quote – Marilyn vos Savant

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition.  Giving up is what makes it permanent.”

Marilyn vos Savant

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