“But I can't help remembering that the world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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“if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.”

― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

“It is essential as a matter of simple survival for us to understand science. In addition, science is a delight; evolution has arranged that we take pleasure in understanding—those who understand are more likely to survive.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.”

― A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

“Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.”

― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“I had rather fashion my soul than furnish it.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“The very qualities I love you for are the ones that will always make you a failure.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“Don't roust your faith bird-high an' you won't do no crawlin' with the worms.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“The people should fight for their law as for their city wall.”

― Heraclitus, On Nature

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