"Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim."

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Source : "Elements of Success". "President Garfield and education. Hiram college memorial". Book compiled by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 331, 1882.

James A. Garfield

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“I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.”
“It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.”
“Culture changes with economic development.”
“I am double jointed in my elbow. So I can turn it all the way around and then bend it so it looks like it's broken.”
“Publicity is absolutely critical. A good PR story is infinitely more effective than a front page ad.”
“And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same.”
“Why would I become involved with something that doesn't include everyone? If you're getting married today, it's the equivalent of joining a country club that doesn't allow blacks or Jews.”
“Scientists actively approach the door to knowledgeâ€”the boundary of the domain of what we know. We question and explore and we change our views when facts and logic force us to do so. We are confident only in what we can verify through experiments or in what we can deduce from experimentally confirmed hypotheses.”

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