"It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good paying investments for the company. In a Republican district I was a strong Republican; in a Democratic district I was Democratic, and in doubtful districts I was doubtful. In politics I was an Erie Railroad man all the time."

-- Jay Gould

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“Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave them to bleach out in the open day, Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes, Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,â€” But we forget not, never can forget.”

Source : "A Flower of a Day". Poem by Dinah Maria Mulock, webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu. 1866.
“The feeling of understanding is as private as the feeling of pain. The act of understanding is at the heart of all scientific activity; without it any ostensibly scientific activity is as sterile as that of a high school student substituting numbers into a formula. For this reason, science, when I push the analysis back as far as I can, must be private.”
“My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.”
“Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.”

Source : Song: Fear Not of Man
“My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had”
“It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting government money because they are doing things that government wants done. How great a peril is this in a democracy?”

Source : "Speaking Of Canada" by Vincent Massey, 1959.
“My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica, Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah, Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke.”
“Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.”

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