"While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human existence more tolerable and life more complete, has to be supplied by the genius of the people themselves. The Government can supply no substitute for enterprise."

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Calvin Coolidge

#Country Quotes #Real Quotes #Government Quotes

“No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.”

Source : "Ashurst, Defeated, Reviews Service, New York Times, p. 18, September 12, 1940.
“Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door.”

Source : Address at Suffolk University Law School; quoted in "The New York Times", April 17, 1986.
“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again.”
“You know everyone loves to hate a happy pair of lovebirds.”
“One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.”

Source : "My family values" by Meg Cabot, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.
“I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me.”
“Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is yet to be learned. And much of the best thinking is done alone-in deserts, on beaches, in bed, behind closed doors. It is why we say we need to get away-to escape from clutter and busyness-to hear ourselves think.”
“Mediocrity always attacks excellence.”

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