"A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind."

-- John Jay Chapman

#Vision Quotes #Doe Quotes #Armchairs Quotes

“If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.”
“Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.”
“I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved.”

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“Madonnas got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being.”
“Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.”
“No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.”
“The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.”
“I dont play golf or tennis, I dont ski, I dont snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.”

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