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No opposition must be taken to heart. Our enemies often help us more than our friends. Besides, a head-wind is better than no wind. Who ever got anywhere in a dead calm?

Amelia E. Barr

Cold focuses the mind. I did the best work I’ve ever done in my parents’ unheated thatched cottage when I was revising for my finals, crouched over an electric fan heater wearing about 10 jumpers. When you are that uncomfortable you don’t mess about.

Fatti forza, ragazzo, vai avanti a schiena dritta e testa alta, e segui sempre e soltanto la voce della tua coscienza.

And so I took all the positive thoughts I could muster and lashed them together in my mind, like planks in a psychological raft that I hoped would buoy me up.

In the modified game, Mario is the one waiting to be saved, while Pauline is the heroine who jumps through the obstacles to be reunited with Mario.

Loke Shi Ying

Any element of tragedy is entirely your own fault.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Charles Dickens