"Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying."

“Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.”

Source : Alfred Whitney Griswold (1957). “In the university tradition”

“I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.”

“When you love someone you let them take care of you.”

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

“A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.”

Source : Edwin Louis Cole (1982). “Maximized Manhood: A Guide to Family Survival”, Whitaker Distribution

“Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.”

Source : Melvil Dewey (1888). “Libraries as Related to the Educational Work of the State”

“The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is longer; and it is more accurately retained the less the mode of life of the recent forms differs from that of the earlier, and the less the peculiarities of the several embryonic states must be regarded as transferred from a later to an earlier period of life, or as acquired independently.”

“I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.”