"As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank."

-- Doris Kearns Goodwin

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“No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.”
“We may not usually think that we have an effect on the lives of others, but we would be amazed at how wrong we could be. We do not need to make great contributions to the world-just small, consistent ones to those whose lives we touch. We could help so many people by just taking the time to listen to them, comfort them or just bring them hope.”
“More often than what you're suggesting, I find people are surprised that I have an urban side to me.”
“Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.”
“It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.”
“Death is simply a shedding of the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon. . . . It's like putting away your winter coat when spring comes.”
“If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.”
“Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.”

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