"I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father."

-- Theodore C. Sorensen

#Father Quotes #Class Quotes #Nebraska Quotes

“See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.”
“Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over others, yet it is spiritually unwarranted. By that point he loses steam; in result, he falsely begins trying to prove that unwarranted dominion by seizing the role of a condemner.”
“The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.”

Source : "Why David Siegel Told His Employees to Vote for Romney". Interview with Susan Berfield, www.bloomberg.com. October 11, 2012.
“One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.”
“God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful of leaving it (dying), as well as to stir in our hearts a longing and yearning and holy anticipation for what is yet to come.”
“I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”
“I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.”
“It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.”

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