It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man not his history.

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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there, won't the next time.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past, so that we can live our dreams.

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.