J. Norman Collie famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.
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Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
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To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.
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The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
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Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting.
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Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds.
-- J. Norman Collie
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Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
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Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.
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When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.
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It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.
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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.
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Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.
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The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
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Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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