The Mother of the Screw Up

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. – Charles Kingsley

Indifference and apathy have one name – betrayal. Salvatore Quasimodo

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living. – Josiah Royce

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph waldo Emerson

Assumption is the mother of screw-up. – Angelo Donghia

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. – Victor Hugo

None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error. – Benjamin Franklin

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