"I have been happy . . . in believing that . . . whatever follies we may be led into as to foreign nations, we shall never give up our Union, the last anchor of our hope, and that alone which is to prevent this heavenly country from becoming an arena of gladiators."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and be humble towards those to whom you teach it, and do not be tyrannical scholar otherwise your knowledge cannot be established because of your tyranny.”
“No matter how cynical I get, I can't keep up.”
“Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.”

Source : Katherine Mansfield (1996). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume IV: 1920-1921”, p.231, Clarendon Press
“U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans.”
“Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.”

Source : George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons
“The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected by the traumas of the external world; it shows, in fact, that such traumas are no more than occasions for it to gain pleasure.”
“The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.”
“Tell him to go to hell.”

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