"May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof."

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David McCullough

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“I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.”
“I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.”
“I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since I don't do a lot of that. The people are great. I seldom have time for vacations and when I do I prefer the beach instead of the desert.”
“I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.”
“Intelligence.Â Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.”
“There's no real alternative to what there is.”
“I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.... What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.”

Source : "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak. Paraphrase of the 1958 translation, as quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978), 1957.
“I like cookies, any cookie you put in front of me - animal cookies, sugar cookies, anything crunchy.”

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