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One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There\'s no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
 Cullen Hightower

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.
 Cullen Hightower
The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?
 Cullen Hightower
A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.
 Cullen Hightower
After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.
 Cullen Hightower
The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.
 Cullen Hightower