"As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and heart will be given to the cause of my state. Whether we have the right of secession or revolution, I want to see my state triumphant."

-- Jubal Early

#War Quotes #Heart Quotes #Hands Quotes

“School yourself to demureness and patience. Learn to inure yourself to drudgery in science. Learn, compare, collect the facts.”

Source : Bequest to the Academic Youth of Soviet Russia, 27 February (1936)
“I really don't care about being the first, so long as it inspires someone else to be second.”

Source : "First Saudi woman summits Mount Everest" by Bryony Jones, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2013.
“It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.”
“Wisdom and knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge and how not to apply it. Knowledge is knowing what to say; wisdom is knowing whether or not to say it. Knowledge gives answers; wisdom asks questions. Knowledge can be taught, wisdom grows from experience.”
“In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.”
“Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.”
“State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It's about state dominance of economic activity for political gain.”

Source : "The End of the Free Market: Six Questions for Ian Bremmer". Interview with Scott Horton, harpers.org. May 07, 2010.

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