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“We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit.”

Doe Spirit Reading Effort Learning Reader Curiosity Determined Encounters Betray Composition Transactions Forewarned

Author:Paulo Freire

“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”

Body Spirit Courses Leadership History Successful Commitment Determination Missions Determined Optimistic Downsizing Getting Fired

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.”

Men Years Humans Littles Spirit Three Nations Ten Lifetime Determined Score Human Spirit Fullness Will To Live

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the rest of the globe, and even though he be charged with provincial selfishness - to preserve America as an uncontaminated laboratory.”

America Spirit Determined Selfishness Preserves Expenses Globes Laboratory Separating Isolationism

Book:The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson

“I know the human spirit. I haven't found a wall that can be built that a determined human being can't get over, under or around.”

Knows Humans Spirit Found Human Beings Havens Wall Built Determined Get Over Human Spirit

Author:Chris Christie