"Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence."

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Source : James Bryant Conant (1942). “Our Fighting Faith: Five Addresses to College Students”, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

James Bryant Conant

#Excellence Quotes #Aristocracy Quotes #Calling Quotes

“Home is the place that'll catch you when you fall. And we all fall.”
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”

Source : "Strange Innocence". Interview with J. T. LeRoy, July 2001.
“I really believe that if I make records that are indispensable to my audience, they'll go out and spend money to buy them, even if they've already downloaded them. If they can afford it. If they can't, I'd rather they be able to download it than not get it at all.”
“We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.”
“Genghis Khan was a fascinating man and way ahead of his time.”
“I grew up thinking the best job in the world would be a Jedi and being a psychologist is the closest thing I could get, so I wanted to be a Jedi and I don't want to be a Sith, so that is what keeps me on the straight and narrow.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.”
“Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't have tattoos, I guess.”

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