"Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous."

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Source : John Jay Chapman, Richard Stone (1998). “Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader”, p.88, University of Illinois Press

John Jay Chapman

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“If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.”

Source : "Rep. Cole: I'm not for raising tax rates on anyone". "Your World" with Neil Cavuto, www.foxnews.com. November 28, 2012.
“My weight has fluctuated my whole life, and because I've been on television since I was 11 years old, everyone has seen it.”
“I've been doing this since I was 12... I don't want to act much longer; I can't do one thing my whole life.”
“I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.”
“Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.”
“That's the thing about acting is that it's reacting to what's going on around you.”
“Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise their hands, because young women don't want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.”

Source : "Has Feminism Gone Too Far?". "Think Tank" with Ben Wattenberg, www.pbs.org. 1995.
“So if you think being thin is enough to succeed in gymnastics, you're wrong.”

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