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- A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one and the real one.
- J. Pierpont Morgan
- There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
- Max Planck, Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, 1950
- There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
- Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Third Olynthiac
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is as shallow as time.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Essay on Sir Walter Scott, 1881
- But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), The Phoenician Women, 409 BC
- We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Radio broadcast, London, March 21, 1943
- The nature of society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow-by the tilt of the social landscape.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Temper of Our Time, 1967
- 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
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