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“For me it's the challenge -- the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future.”

Trying Mind Past Challenges Beats Accomplish Accomplished

Author:Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“Knowledge is humanistic in quality not because it is about human products in the past, but because of what it does in liberating human intelligence and human sympathy. Any subject matter which accomplishes this result is humane, and any subject matter which does not accomplish it is not even educational.”

Humans Doe Matter Past Results Quality Subjects Products Educational Accomplish Liberating Humane Subject Matter Human Intelligence Humanistic

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.”

Shows Past Effort Study Generations Authority Accomplish Manners Lasting Customs Superficial Consent Sociology Futility Lasting Change

Book:Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage

Source: Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage