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A. James Clark

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JAMES A. MICHENER If you walk 100 miles into the life you don't want. Often, you must walk those same 100 miles to get...
JAMES A. MURPHY I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complain...
JAMES A. MICHENER If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of...
JAMES A. MICHENER If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should...
JAMES A. GARFIELD If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit sh...
JAMES A. GARFIELD [Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been aske...
JAMES A. FROUDE Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
JAMES A. FROUDE Where would we be without salt?
JAMES A. BEARD There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own e...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attenti...
JAMES A. FORBES Lloyd Alexander's tales were written and published when I was in diapers. Decades later, they re...
JAMES A. MOORE Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to cont...
JAMES A. BALDWIN A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
JAMES A. BALDWIN It's Elvish," Tummeler repeated. "It says, basically, 'Declare allegiance, and be welcomed."
"W...
JAMES A. OWEN Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, it...
JAMES A. GARFIELD History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronolo...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Right reason is stronger than force.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor ju...
JAMES A. GARFIELD If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a bra...
JAMES A. GARFIELD