{"quotes":[{"text":"Stays focused and channel your little efforts through a common canal and you will marvel at the amount of pressure you create in that canal.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["be-passionate","canal","channel","common","concentrate","create","effort","focus","focused","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","little","marvel","pressure","stay","stay-focused"],"id":32237,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Leaders don't fall in gutters of fear; only negative ideas flow in that canal. There, you will see filthy things like doubts and disbelief.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["afraid","canal","disbelief","doubts","fear","filthy","food-for-thought","gutter","gutters","idea","ideas","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","negative","negative-thinking","negativity","panic","personal-development","positive","positive-ideas","positive-thinking","positivism"],"id":181946,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"There was a pleasant party of barge people round the fire. You might not have thought it pleasant, but they did; for they were all friends or acquaintances, and they liked the same sort of things, and talked the same sort of talk. This is the real secret of pleasant society.","author":"E. Nesbit","tags":["canal","children","england","insight","life","society"],"id":280485,"author_id":"E.+Nesbit"},{"text":"Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either damage the birth canal or will not fit down it is one of the greatest challenges to modern medicine.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["babies","birth","canal","challenges","damage","down","either","fit","giving","greatest","large","many","medicine","modern","not","one","understanding","unnaturally","western","why","will","women"],"id":323683,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Girls should be taught at school that giving birth to an unnaturally over-sized western baby that no longer fits down the birth canal may lead to a multitude of long term health problems.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["babies","baby","birth","birth-mother","canal","down","female","females","fit","fits","girl","girl","girls","giving","giving-birth","giving","health","lead","long","long-term","longer","multitude","over","problem","problems","school","school-education","school-of-life","school","schools","should","sized","taught","term","unnaturally","western","western-civilization","western-culture","western-philosophy","western-world"],"id":368320,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"When all your efforts are channeled through a common canal for progress, no condition can alter a single sentence of your success story! Dream it; Drive it; Be in focus!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["act","action","alter","big-dreams","canal","change","channel","condition","do-it","do-it-better","dream-big","dream-it","drive-it","effort","focus","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","passion","single","story","success","success-story","you-can-make-it"],"id":393697,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Since 1849 I have studied incessantly, under all its aspects, a question which was already in my mind since 1832. I confess that my scheme is still a mere dream, and I do not shut my eyes to the fact that so long as I alone believe it to be possible, it is virtually impossible. ... The scheme in question is the cutting of a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. This has been thought of from the earliest historical times, and for that very reason is looked upon as impracticable. Geographical dictionaries inform us indeed that the project would have been executed long ago but for insurmountable obstacles. [On his inspiration for the Suez Canal.].","author":"Ferdinand de Lesseps","tags":["belief","canal","confession","dream","eyes","mind","obstacles","possibility","question","scheme","science","study","suez-canal"],"id":479420,"author_id":"Ferdinand+de+Lesseps"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}