"People should not say that this or that is not worth learning, giving as their reason that it will not be put to use. They can no more know what information they will need in the future than they will know the weather two hundred years from today."

-- Clara Barton

#Years Quotes #Weather Quotes #Two Quotes

“...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.”
“It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing
“I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom.”
“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
“I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.”
“I've never had any problems with women. Having been one of the world's greatest womanizers they've probably had more problems with me.”
“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.”
“Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.”

Source : 'The Prologue' (1650)

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