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Rising Quotes - Page 5

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.326, Library of America

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

"Republican Obstructionism Leads to Doubling Student Loan Rates" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2013.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

"Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.66, 谷月社

My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Collected Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.55, e-artnow

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

Curt Flood, Richard Carter (1971). “The way it is”, Trident Press (WA)