“In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people.” PeopleMenYearsEnoughCharacterEnergyWiseTypeIntegrityCongressObservationRepresentativesSelect Author:Sam Rayburn
“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.” IfsWayArtSaidBookWould BeEnergyLanguageTroubleBrotherProveAmbitionSolutionsCriminalsSuperiorsObservationAgentsMy BrotherReasoningDetectivesDeductionsVerifyArmchairsNo Energy Book:The Best of Sherlock Holmes Source: The Best of Sherlock Holmes
“There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observation of the material energies which operate in the external universe.” MenTwoReligionUniverseEnergyGrowsMoralMaterialsShapesBottomObservationCommandmentsNature Of Man Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects