"We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it."

-- Robert M. Hutchins

“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
“We are the number one custom yacht builder in the world and my goal is to stay there”
“It is true to say that I was nurtured on Bible stories but mostly concerned with sacrifice. If by some mischance I did, or said, anything which my father regarded as improper, he would say: 'Do not grieve the Lord by behaving so.' And if I suggested that I wanted to go somewhere, or meet somebody, he would say: 'It will not please the Lord.'”
“So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes. . . . I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.”
“The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.”
“Most mysteries are soluble in time.”
“... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?”
“You're kind of numb after 50 shots to the head.”

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