"Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others."

-- Jane Addams

#Intellectual Quotes #Expansion Quotes #Affection Quotes

“The reason of football is not to be the best but to be the best team”
“The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.”
“Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.”

Source : Remarks before the Joint Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith, Chicago, Illinois, June 21, 1961.
“... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.”

Source : Margaret Deland (1894). “Sidney”
“I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.”
“After the game, I'm a completely different person. I drink some beers with friends and try to get my mind completely off football.”
“Mama, humanity is my business.”
“In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.”

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