Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. Quotes

Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.

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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.

Edmund Morgan
- Men
- History
- New
I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.

Yogi Berra
- France
- Southern
- Invasion
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Camille Paglia
- Art
- Nature
- Imagination
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

Ian Hacking
- People
- Power
- Bad
If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.

Pat Metheny
- Time
- House
- You
Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

Zig Ziglar
- Thinking
- You
- Positive