"I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read. I would go into the Savannah Public Libraries in the stacks and see all of the newspapers from all over the country. Did I dream that I would be on the Supreme Court? No. But I dreamt that there was a world out there that was worth pursuing."

-- Clarence Thomas

#Dream Quotes #Country Quotes #Library Quotes

“To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.”
“A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.”
“If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes you a liberal, I plead guilty.”
“A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage.”

Source : Genetics and Man Ch. 16
“China was the most optimistic place I'd ever been. Everybody I met was pretty much convinced that their children would have it better than their parents had had it. It was like being in America in the 1950's, with this deep optimism about the future because everything was getting better, and that fascinated me.”
“What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself â€” if I want the impossible...”
“Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.”
“The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.”

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