"Being in the Marine Corps was the best thing that ever happened to me. It can do a lot for a young guy. I owe a lot to the Marine Corps. If I had a son, I'd want him to be a Marine."

-- Tom Monaghan

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“All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.”
“If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?”

Source : In Bertrand Russell 'Autobiography' (1967) vol. 1, ch. 4
“The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism.”
“Life at its essence boils down to one day at a time. Today is the day!”

Source : Jim Stovall (2001). “The Ultimate Gift”, p.131, David C Cook
“The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.”
“It is better to see once than to hear a hundred times.”

Source : Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1988). “At the Summit: Speeches and Interviews, February 1987-July 1988”, Eagle Publishing Corporation
“In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.”
“Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.”

Source : Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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