#vita

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#dignity #free #free people #fundamental #human

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#i #interpret #invitations #my own #own

I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives. ↗

— Nadia Comaneci

#believe #doing #gravitate #i #i believe

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea. ↗

— James Bryant Conant

#daring #every #exciting #idea #life

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent. ↗

— Peter Conrad

#circumstance #historian #inevitability #innocuous #job

It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#dakota #developing #diets #eating #ensuring

Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it. ↗

— John Corigliano

#eighty #gravitate #percent #pieces #somewhere

Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#illinois #particularly #service #southern #students

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. ↗

— Angela Davis

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