Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.


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JACOB BRONOWSKI
Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done. [Lat....
JACOB BOBART
There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good...
JACOB DEGROM
My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandm...
JACOB ROTHSCHILD
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deepe...
JACOB BRONOWSKI
My mum is the funniest and sweetest person I know; my sister's like my best friend, so it's ...
JACOB WHITESIDES
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our life...
JACOB BRONOWSKI
It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably i...
JACOB RUPPERT
Keep God first, chase your dreams, and everything will pay off.
JACOB LATIMORE
The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.
JACOB LEW
Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as ...
JACOB ZUMA
People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wan...
JACOB ZUMA
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; the...
JACOB BRONOWSKI
I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the...
JACOB EPSTEIN
For several years, I have had my eye on second baseman Del Pratt of St. Louis. I cannot say that he ...
JACOB RUPPERT
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, ...
JACOB BRONOWSKI
In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build u...
JACOB RUPPERT
Raising the debt limit on some levels is a ministerial act. It doesn't involve any new spending.
JACOB LEW
Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.
JACOB LEW
The poem or the discovery exists in two moments of vision: the moment of appreciation as much as tha...
JACOB BRONOWSKI
We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasing...
JACOB LEW
I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the...
JACOB LEW
Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.
JACOB ZUMA
There's no fool like an old fool -- you can't beat experience.
JACOB BRAUDE
Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil undernea...
JACOB BRAUDE
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
JACOB BRAUDE
He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more.
JACOB ATWOOD
They all lived in constant fear. He brutalized her for 27 years. He didn't just snap last week.
JACOB ATWOOD
This was genuine fear - fear born of experience of a man that was mean and ugly, not crazy, but mean...
JACOB ATWOOD
He wrote a lot of prescriptions and he kept a lot for himself.
JACOB ATWOOD
Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the f...
JACOB ATKINSON
Is it just me or do we seem to ignore the intelligent people in politics and focus on the radical id...
JACOB ATKINSON
Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain
JACOB ATKINSON
Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything...
JACOB ATKINSON
Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I...
JACOB ATKINSON
He was kind of like the big bang theory, except instead of nothing building up and creating the univ...
JACOB ATKINSON
Make yourself look stupid on occasion, because if you don't people will start to think you're smart....
JACOB ATKINSON
Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure.
JACOB ATKINSON
Don't use others as a crutch, for we must all go our own ways at one point or another, and when they...
JACOB ATKINSON
It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets ...
JACOB ATKINSON
The celebrities who bought my watches did help, but they weren't just doing me a favor because they ...
JACOB ARABO
Your wife will be very happy, ... If she's not, send her back. One thing about our company, customer...
JACOB ARABO
I'm really not the bling king, ... I'm the No. 1 supplier and designer for bling kings.
JACOB ARABO
We call this The World Is Yours, ... It costs $1 million. Other jewelers thought I was losing my min...
JACOB ARABO
It's been an intense process. It's been harrowing at times, but we've made it through and it's been ...
JACOB ALLEN
It basically describes a day in the life of Charlie Brown. The show takes the form of the comic stri...
JACOB ALLEN
Coach Mac (Tim MacDonald) told us last week that the defensive line should be the leading tacklers t...
JACOB ALLEN
It'd be great to go 3-0. We have to contain their quarterback. He's quick and likes to run the optio...
JACOB ALLEN
What we wanted to do is set a good tone for the season. 2-0 is exactly where we wanted to be.
JACOB ALLEN
You know when pillowcases come out of the dryer and they get really wrinkled? I iron them.
JACOB LATIMORE