"We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they know that eighty percent of them are not going to succeed more than to just keep going and why if they are not why do they not keep on being interested in the things that interested them when they were college men and why American men different from English men do not get more interesting as they get older."

-- Gertrude Stein

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“Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.”
“The more we thank God for the blessings we receive, the more we open the way for further blessings.”
“We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.”

Source : Isaac Barrow (1798). “Twenty two sermons on various subjects: selected from the works of the Rev. Isaac Barrow, ...”, p.378
“The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.”

Source : Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.324, Paulist Press
“Students from the same teacher will differ in their skills”
“I was always a big fan of waiting a year of two to groom an NFL quarterback; let him learn and mature.”
“The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees!”
“Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.”

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