For those of you who wish to get a feel for it, get in the car and bring it up to fifty miles an hour and then stick your head and arms outside and, while driving, try to fold up a simple bath towel in the wind

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"Reading for me is spending time with a friend."

- Gary Paulsen

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"Reading, for me, is spending time with a friend."

- Gary Paulsen

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"...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath..."

- Gary Paulsen

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"The effort you invest today is the pride you feel tomorrow."

- Unknown

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"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

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"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

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"A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job."

- Michael Larsen

Hard Work

"A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work."

- Colin Powell

Hard Work