"It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale."

-- Richard Hofstadter

#Lying Quotes #Class Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“You shouldn't just work on your jump shot. You should work on being a better person, a better teammate, and a better friend.”
“What, on the eternal list of priorities, precedes health? What more obvious role could government have than the defense of the life, of each citizen? We cannot stop every germ that seeks to harm us any more than we can stop every person who seeks to harm us. But we can try dammit and government's essential role in that effort facilitate it, reduce its cost, broaden its availability, improve my health and yours, seems, ultimately, self-explanatory.”
“I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own.”
“Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.”

Source : 1826 'Holy, Holy, Holy!'.
“Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.”
“The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the' conquering that gives a hero his title to renown.”

Source : Elias Lyman Magoon (1849). “Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom”, p.188
“In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond.”
“As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of the war's going to be fought. Waterloo is here somewhere.”

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