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- I bet you if I had met him [Trotsky] and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Saturday Evening Post, Nov. 6, 1926
- I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
- Harold Macmillan (1894 - 1986), Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 1963
- There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
- Yet ah! why should they know their fate,
Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Thomas Gray, "On a Distant Prospect of Eton College" 1742
- Sure, winning isn't everything. It's the only thing.
- Henry Sanders, in Sports Illustrated, Dec. 26, 1955
- He who has never hoped can never despair.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4
- Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)
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