“The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.”
Basketball coach Bobby Knight, quoted in the Helena, Mont., Independent Record
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“The fates guide him who will; him who won’t, they drag.”
Seneca, quoted in The Village Voice
“Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.”
Author Ben Hecht, quoted in the Associated Press
“I like work: It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
Humorist Jerome K. Jerome, quoted in The Wall Street Journal
“Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.”
Winston Churchill, quoted in The Weekly Standard
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that really matter.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., quoted in the National Post (Canada)
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5 thoroughly redacted cartoons about Pam Bondi protecting predatorsCartoons Artists take on the real victim, types of protection, and more
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Palestine Action and the trouble with defining terrorismIn the Spotlight The issues with proscribing the group ‘became apparent as soon as the police began putting it into practice’
