"Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead."

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Gene Stratton-Porter

“Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium for introspective reflection.”

Source : Richard Leakey (2008). “The Origin Of Humankind”, p.125, Hachette UK
“First of all, the majority of us, regardless of what we may say, are capitalists. That is, we practice it, it's what we "do," it's how we live, we are capitalists.”
“Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.”
“It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club”
“The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.”
“We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.”
“It was a great place to grow up. There were always kids around in our neighborhood. We had a basketball hoop in the back of our house, a little front yard where you could get touch football games going. I know you think of it as a big city, but it was fun for me to grow up in New Orleans. I remember it as a very normal childhood.”
“If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.”

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