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  • #1
    Ronald Wright
    “John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
    Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

  • #2
    “You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
    Olin Miller

  • #3
    Mark Mortensen
    “A nation that fails to recognize and appreciate history is destined for decay.”
    Mark Mortensen

  • #4
    Mark Twain
    “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
    Mark Twain

  • #5
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #6
    Confucius
    “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
    Confucious

  • #7
    Emma Donoghue
    “Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
    Emma Donoghue, Room

  • #8
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #9
    Thomas Sowell
    “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
    Thomas Sowell

  • #10
    Calvin Coolidge
    “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
    Calvin Coolidge

  • #11
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Albert Einstein
    “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
    Albert Einstein

  • #14
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
    Ernest Hemingway



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