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All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them. (Ace Goodman)
I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones. (Ace Goodman)
I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must. (Ace Goodman)
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. (Ace Goodman)
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. (Ace Goodman)
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. (Ace Goodman)
When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. (Ace Goodman)
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace. (Ace Goodman)
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. (Ace Goodman)
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. (Ace Goodman)
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. (Ace Goodman)
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. (Ace Goodman)
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. (Ace Goodman)
The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace. (Ace Goodman)
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. (Ace Goodman)
In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind. (Ace Goodman)
He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another. (Ace Goodman)
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. (Ace Goodman)
In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been tattooed with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the haves. (Ace Goodman)
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. (Ace Goodman)
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them? (Ace Goodman)
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. (Ace Goodman)
You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown. (Ace Goodman)
When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly. (Ace Goodman)
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known. (Ace Goodman)
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