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Maxwell Anderson
"When a government takes over a people’s economic life it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs."
“And the days dwindle down To a precious few, September, November - And these few precious days I'd spend with you, These golden days I'd spend with you”
“If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you. It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.”
“What price Glory?”
"There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime."
“This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it”
Warren Christopher
“Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.”
“I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.”
“An independent and free media is essential to ensure democracy.”
“One always wonders about roads not taken.”
“When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.”
Kent Conrad
“I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.
Cliff Cushman
“I would much rather fail knowing I had put forth an honest effort than never to have tried at all.”
“I dare you to look up at the stars, not down at the mud and set your sights on one of them. Who knows? You may be surprised at what you can achieve with sincere effort.”
George A. Custer
“You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.”
Angie Dickinson
“My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.”
“You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.”
James Foley
“God of freedom, all victorious, give us souls serene and strong, strength to make the future glorious, keep the echo of our song.”
William H. Gass
“My grandmother's attic was full of old, old books . . . In the summers we would go to North Dakota to visit her, and I would get in that attic and read everything in sight. That's when the passion started.”
“Getting even is one reason for writing.”
“Works of art are my objects of worship. [They] are often more real than we are because they embody human consciousness completely fulfilled.”
“And the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.”
Kent Higgins
“The most enduring mystery of life for me has been why the world is so beautiful. I think I have at least a rough understanding of why most things are as they are. What I cannot explain is why human beings find the world not just wonderful but also stunningly beautiful.”
Virgil Hill
“I want one more fight. I want a big fight. Win, lose or draw, I retire right after that. But I want to be able to do it on my terms.”
Phil Jackson
“Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.”
“Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.”
“Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.”
General Harold Johnson
“President Johnson wanted to fight the Vietnam War on the cheap and on the quiet. He didn’t want to disturb middle-class America or Congress.”
Woody Keeble
“I am going back into the service, because someone has to teach these men to fight.”
Louis LaMoure
"A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat."
“Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him."
"For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time."
"Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value."
"No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process."
"Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content."
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning."
"To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder."
"To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain."
"Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more."
"Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity and movement and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds."
William Langer
“I would rather be the most humble practitioner of law in the state of North Dakota than be attorney general or governor in this state and be subject to the domination of an over-lord.”
Peggy Lee
“You can't beat The Beatles, you join 'em.”
“Manana is soon enough for me.”
Roger Maris
"As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again."
"Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball."
"I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth."
"I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on."
"It would have been a helluva lot more fun if I had not hit those sixty-one home runs."
"It's (baseball) a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc."
"It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews."
Satchel Paige
“Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.”
“Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.” .
“Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.”
“Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”
“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?”
“If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.”
“Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.”
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.”
“Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
"Mother always told me, if you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to no one else."
Gilbert Pierce
“It is best to remain happy while we live for we’ll be a long time dead.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.”
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.”
“A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.”
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.”
“Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
“Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.”
“Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.”
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.”
“Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.”
“Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.”
“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.”
“I am a part of everything that I have read.”
“I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”
“I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!”
“I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.”
“I never would have been President if it had not been for my experience in North Dakota.”
“I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.”
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”
“In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
“It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.”
“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”
“It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.”
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
“No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.”
“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.”
“No people are wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.”
“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”
“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”
“Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.”
“Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.”
“The American people abhor a vacuum.”
“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
“The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.”
“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.”
“The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.”
“The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.”
“The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”
“The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.”
“The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.”
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Eric Sevareid
“The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something,”
“Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle" "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."
“The chief cause of problems is solutions.”
“Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.”
“Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.”
“The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.”
“Saints are usually killed by their own people”
“The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth”
“Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend”
“I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.”
“Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.”
“Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.”
“I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.”
“The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.”
Sitting Bull
“The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.”
“Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.“
“Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.“
“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.”
“Each man is good in His [Great Spirit’s] sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.”
Lawrence Welk
“There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.”
“Whenever you have a minute I'd like to see you right now.”
“I just had an idea that went right over my head.”
“I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.”
“I was absolutely convinced I was inferior to the rest of the family in every way-the smallest, skinniest, homeliest member of the whole group.”
“I take Geritol and Sominex, think good thoughts, swim daily, and play golf religiously.”
“Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.”
“It mattered very much to each one of us what happened to the other fellow.”
“Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.”
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