"If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation."

-- James Monroe

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“I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.”

Source : Timothy Thomas Fortune, Seth Moglen (2007). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”, Simon and Schuster
“I have a drivers licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.”
“You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.”
“I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.”
“I think I'm a fun flatmate. I'm always cheerful. I go on tour with my band so it's 12 people on one bus and I feel like I'm the one who's happy in the morning. I'm not a chaotic person, but I might slack off on doing the dishes from time to time.”
“For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar
“Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.”
“I don't shave when I'm not working.”

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