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- That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929
- Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
- W.E.B. Du Bois, Speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906
- There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
- Robert Half
- When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
- John Billings(Henry Wheeler Shaw)
- We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
- Bill Vaughan
- No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of few and carried in the hearts of many.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech, San Francisco, May 13, 1903
- The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
- Sydney J. Harris
- We always felt as if every show was the most important thing in the world, but knew if we bombed, we'd live.
- Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
- Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Profiles in Courage, 1956
- I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
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