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My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.


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JOHN C. SENALL Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. The...
JOHN C. CALHOUN A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN When your child stops breathing 60 times a night, you don't worry about what's going on next...
JOHN C. MCGINLEY The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.
JOHN C. MAXWELL I know that there is a great diversity of opinion as to who, in fact, pays the duties on imports. I ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Big Bang gave us hydrogen and helium. We couldn't make people out of hydrogen and helium. So we&...
JOHN C. MATHER Many of the problems facing the nation and the world today may only be solved if their technical ele...
JOHN C. MATHER Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who...
JOHN C. MAXWELL The first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise... and cultivate the delightfully vagu...
JOHN C. CROSBY I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive....
JOHN C. CALHOUN What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect i...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish ...
JOHN C. REILLY In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN As an eight-year-old, I would listen to stories and biographies of Charles Darwin and Galileo. I als...
JOHN C. MATHER The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's m...
JOHN C. REILLY There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and popula...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, po...
JOHN C. CALHOUN A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indee...
JOHN C. CALHOUN A lot of things went incredibly well for 'Scrubs': from a ridiculous number of downloads on ...
JOHN C. MCGINLEY Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.
JOHN C. MAXWELL Competence goes beyond words. It's the leader's ability to say it, plan it, and do it in such a way ...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
JOHN C. MAXWELL A mentor enables a person to achieve. A hero shows what achievement looks like.
JOHN C. MATHER Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our cap...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN It is admitted on all sides that we must equalize the revenue and expenditures. The scheme of borrow...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.
JOHN C. MAXWELL