"If you would be a leader of men you must lead your own generation, not the next. Your playing must be good now, while the play ison the boards and the audience in the seats.... It will not get you the repute of a good actor to have excellencies discovered in you afterwards."

-- Woodrow Wilson

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“If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.”
“I'm little, but I love big things.”
“I learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.”
“When our ancestors were attacked at Pearl Harbor, they called it a day that would live in infamy. The day the Partials attacked us with the RM Virus will not live in anything, because there will be none of us left to remember it." -President David R. Cregan, March 21, 2065, in a press conference at the White House. Three hours later he hanged himself.”
“At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.”

Source : Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.10, Vintage
“I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”

Source : Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.43, Wesleyan University Press
“Well, it's a problem in general with the American military. If you are the biggest and the strongest military power in the world, you have this natural reluctance to learn the quirky ways of the natives in faraway lands.”
“In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.”

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