They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.

Christopher Hitchens

Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.

will.i.am

We may place blame, give reasons, and even have excuses; but in the end, it is an act of cowardice to not follow your dreams.

Steve Maraboli

Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.

Eric Butterworth

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.

Kurt Vonnegut

A radical is one of whom people say He goes too far. A conservative, on the other hand, is one who doesn't go far enough. Then there is the reactionary, one who doesn't go at all. All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

Woodrow Wilson

We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

William Shakespeare

Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

English Proverb

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

George E. Woodberry

It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.

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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Vincent Van Gogh