"The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands."

-- William James

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“By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains.”
“I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.”
“The first hundred years are the hardest.”

Source : "Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags". Book by Stuart B. McIver, 1994.
“If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.”

Source : William Lyon Phelps (2016). “Happiness”, p.15, Read Books Ltd
“It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.”
“Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.”
“Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.”
“In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person's unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear.”

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