"The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service."

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Source : Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 14 April 1971.

Richard Helms

#Men Quotes #Honorable Man Quotes #Degrees Quotes

“The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.”

Source : John Maeda (2006). “The Laws of Simplicity”, p.21, MIT Press
“If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it.”

Source : Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (2004). “The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History”, p.26, Regnery Publishing
“In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty, disseminated widely, will sooner or later lead to goodness. (While we're making at effort at truth and goodness, beauty reminds us what we're hold out for.)”
“Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?”
“there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.”
“Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way”

Source : Isaac Rosenberg (2015). “Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)”, p.326, Delphi Classics
“If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.”
“Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.”

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