"Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king."

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Source : Mark Van Doren (1963). “Joy of being serious: address presented at the New Year convocation for students, University of Illinois”

Mark Van Doren

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“We're baseball players. We don't need guys telling us, 'Hey, you need to hurry. Hey, you need to do this. Hey, you need to step up.' We are professionals, we can do that without anybody telling us. I'm OK with it, but we need to do it on our own.”

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“Don't use time and words carelessly - neither can be retrieved.”
“Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”
“The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.”
“Women can always be caught; that's the first rule of the game.”
“Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won't work, because it doesn't 'take'.”
“If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.”
“My own singing voice is not very good and I don't think that anybody really sings in their own voice.”

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