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Charles Franklin Kettering


An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Blessing Irish


May there always be work for your hands to do, May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine warm on your windowpane, May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. May the hand of a friend always be near you, And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.

Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003


Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Janos Arnay


It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911


A poem is no place for an idea.

Harold Taylor


A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.

Caligula (Gaius Caesar), From Suetonius


Would that the Roman people had a single neck [to cut off their head].

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