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Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.


William J. H. Boetcker

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JIM GENOVESE What you do to others, you do to yourself.
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WILLIAM H. MACY When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were re...
WILLIAM H. HUNT For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban li...
WILLIAM H. GASS The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a fr...
WILLIAM H. GRAY Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Go...
WILLIAM H. MACY Still, we permit the appearance of our meats, sauces, fruits, and vdgetables to dominate our tongues...
WILLIAM H. GASS There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but b...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT I do not question the power of our weapons and the efficiency of our logistics; I cannot say these t...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously enc...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minut...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our asset...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and p...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international re...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILLIAM J. DURANT Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILLIAM J. DURANT One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing ...
WILLIAM J. DURANT Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed ou...
WILLIAM J. CLINTON O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are a...
WILLIAM J. FEDERER We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the fac...
WILLIAM J. PERRY Persistence wears down resistance.
WILLIAM J. FEDERER To me, the irony of this involvement with size, as I observed earlier, is the unwillingness or inabi...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, f...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of other...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT