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However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source.

America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?

The test and use of a man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

INSECTIVORA, n.
"See," cries the chorus of admiring preachers,
"How Providence provides for all His creatures!"
"His care," the gnat said, "even the insects follows:
For us He has provided wrens and swallows."
Sempen Railey

If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Always remember, others may hate you- but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that.

KILL, v.t. To create a vacancy without nominating a successor.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on--for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn.