"From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me."

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Source : Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. May/June 2005.

Donald Kagan

#Reading Quotes #Boys Quotes #Choices Quotes

“we should think not only of what the leader does to the group, but also of what the group does to the leader.”
“Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. Youâ€™ll be surprised at the results.”
“I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.”
“The greatest wealth of this nation is not only the mergers of giant corporations or the possibility of further globalization of the infrastructure of the world. In the United States, our greatest single source of wealth is the minds and talent of our young people. Not to use it is stupid - to waste it is a crime.”
“In the beggining of I was getting all this feedback from people saying, "What are you doing? What is this?" But I thought to myself, "This is a great opportunity. This is a perfect bridge to help me achieve my dream and my vision of polo becoming a bigger, more visible sport." So I used the money that I was getting from modeling to buy better horses and to become a better player. So I really believed that if I could elevate my game and show that I was serious about it, then the work I was doing with Ralph Lauren would become that bridge that I was looking for to take the sport further.”
“Spring's greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.”

Source : Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”
“Too much good taste can be boring”
“Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter how many detours and deceptions and abandonings of hope. And hope could never have been entirely abandoned, even in the worst days.”

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