Margaret Ayer Barnes Quotes

#1. The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.

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#2. There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.

Margaret Ayer Barnes

#3. Riches make cowards of us ...

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#4. All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington ...

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#5. Character comes before scholarship.

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#6. Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?

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#7. Resisted temptations become lost opportunities ...

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#8. Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated
old-fashioned.

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#9. Character is the best security.

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#10. All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.

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#11. I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing ...

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#12. It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble.

Margaret Ayer Barnes