Carl Hoppe quotes
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“I hope that my achievements in life shall be these-that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.”
-- Carl Hoppe
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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.”
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“The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.”
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“It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
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“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”
Source : Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group