"While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they were due to fill the places that had been waiting for them from the day they were born, it was, at the same time, opening its doors to a more cosmopolitan student population and beginning to take the first tentative steps toward mitigating the evils of a pyramidal social system that concentrated all its social honors upon the rich and the wellborn."

-- Doris Kearns Goodwin

#Son Quotes #Doors Quotes #Class Quotes

“The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.”
“My acting's very understated. I think my sad and happy don't play that differently onscreen.”

Source : "Bret McKenzie of Flight Of The Conchords". Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. July 27, 2007.
“Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.”
“I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another. That was my parents, who exposed me to their stories. That's how I was introduced to the whole idea of not just reading, but storytelling in general.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.”
“I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing”
“You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.”

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