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- There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957), Where the Blue Begins,1922
- Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
- Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882), Orley Farm, chapter 49, 1950
- Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
- John Randolph (1773 - 1833)
- A good book is enjoyable. A great book sets off a bomb inside of you.
- Ned Hepburn, Ned Hepburn Tumbler, 11-11-2011
- These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Public and Private Education, November 27, 1864
- These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Public and Private Education, November 27, 1864
- I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together , not only our government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad.
- Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Remarks on taking the oath of office, August 9, 1974`
- It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these value, we do so at our peril.
- J. William Fulbright (1905 - ), Remarks in the Senate, June 29, 1961
- Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
- George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
- Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
- Abraham Flexner (1866 - 1959), Universities, part 3, 1930
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