"The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight."

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Source : Mary Everest Boole (1931). “...Collected Works...”

Mary Everest Boole

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“We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world...”

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“(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.”
“I am competing with what I am capable of.”
“Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you.”
“If I use the media, even with tricks, to publicize a black youth being shot in the back in Teaneck, New Jersey... then I should be praised for it, and it's more of a comment on them than me that it would take tricks to make them cover the loss of life.”
“If you're morally clear you are not on the Left”
“Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.”
“We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.”

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