"In my day, they were not interested in making boys happy. Those schools were made for the types of men who would become quite successful. It was brutal. They are not brutal today. They are country clubs today."

-- Louis Auchincloss

#Country Quotes #School Quotes #Successful Quotes

“When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me to go home, but I don't want to go home. We are negotiating at the moment.”
“I try not to have too many opinions; I just marvel at the world we live in.”

Source : "A Woman We Love: Paula Patton". Interview with Ryan D'Agostino, www.esquire.com. August 4, 2008.
“I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.”

Source : "A New Mountain to Climb: Heroes I've Met and the Mountains They Climb Every Day". Book by Neal McCoy, p. 72, 2010.
“Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.”
“The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our Constitution.”
“It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.”
“Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing stock of knowledge exceeds the range available to any one individual.”

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