"If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife."

-- Samuel Eliot Morison

#Wife Quotes #Long Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world”
“I could not understand how people could not like something as beautiful as the aerodrome. But I had lately become convinced that in general people were pretty boring. They liked to moan for hours on end about how hard it was to make ends meet, about the money they owed, the price of food, and other similar worries, but the minute some more brilliant or attractive subject come up, they were struck deaf.”
“The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.”
“If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.”
“It's a reality check. These other countries took it seriously. You have to realize that other countries play the game and that anything can happen in a three-game series. It's do, or die.”
“Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters”
“I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.”
“That is what has been said in the media and at the trial. To this day nobody has produced one. There is no written confession, there is no tape recorded confession, there is no police stenographer typed confession .It was in my appeal, and the court refused to look at it and the state refused to answer it. If they had nothin' to hide I can't understand why they can't produce one.”

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