"Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things."

-- Herbert Butterfield

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“We should all try to embrace our own quirkiness.”
“Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.”
“China is now suffering from poverty, not from unequal distribution of wealth. Where there are inequalities of wealth, the methods of Marx can, of course, be used; a class war can be advocated to destroy the inequalities. But in China, where industry is not yet developed, Marx's class war and dictatorship of the proletariat are impracticable.”

Source : "Capital and the State". Book by Sun Yat-sen, 1924.
“Every campus, of course, also has its rabble of young "liberals," who are forever making a din as they "demonstrate" for "world peash," "snivel rights," and the like, and who, if we may judge from their appearance and their yammering, are as afraid of war as they are of soap. I am sure that every student here present fully understands the importance of staying on the good side of the young "intellectuals" -- I mean the windward side, of course.”

Source : "Can 'Liberals' be Educated?". National Vanguard, July 8, 2005.
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
“I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.”
“When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.”
“The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.”

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