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“It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in the efficacy of mechanic's institutes, or even of primary and elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry, so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety.”

“For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.”

“I think it's a sign of a gotcha political system that's looking to take down public interest candidates that they make a big deal out of a comment to a parent concerned about the exposure of young children to Wi-Fi. Now it turns out that Wi-Fi is actually untested. A large study by the NIH [National Institutes of Health] released a month ago raised serious questions about whether kids ought to be exposed, whether young children ought to be exposed to Wi-Fi. And you know, I'm not saying they should or they shouldn't but that this should be studied. Absolutely it should be studied.”

“After all, tomorrow is another day.”

“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

“You're gonna need a bigger boat.”

“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti”

“Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.”

“The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying the institutes of the great Lawgiver and head of the Christian Church: which are to be found clearly written and promuligated in the New Testament.”

“My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."”

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”

“A boy's best friend is his mother.”

“Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)”

“You can't handle the truth!”

“Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?”

“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”

“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.”

“By integrating women into particularly military institutes, it cripples the readiness of our defense. Schools like The Citadel train young men to confidently lead other young men into a battlefield where one of them will die. And when you have women in that situation, it creates a whole new set of dynamics which are distracting to training these men to kill or be killed.”

“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.”

“I am big. It's the pictures that got small.”

“Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.”