"I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing."

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John Burns

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“My fashion philosophy is, if you're not covered in dog hair, your life is empty.”
“Many able Gardeners and Husbandmen are yet Ignorant of the Reason of their Calling; as most Artificers are of the Reason of their own Rules that govern their excellent Workmanship. But a Naturalist and Mechanick of this sort is Master of the Reason of both, and might be of the Practice too, if his Industry kept pace with his Speculation; which were every commendable; and without which he cannot be said to be a complete Naturalist or Mechanick.”
“I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!”
“It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.”
“For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.”
“You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!”
“We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.”
“You can be fearful or fearless...I chose the latter”

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