Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
G. M. Trevelyan
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
A little man often cast a long shadow.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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