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What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? "Me Father is very fond of me!


John Ortberg Jr.

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JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking da...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine...
JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort...
JOHN W. HINCKLEY JR. Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want t...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging ...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. Your prodigal son has left again to exorcise some demons.
JOHN W. HINCKLEY JR. Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR. Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
JOHN F. LEHMAN, JR. [He was] not a Soviet apologist. [He] did not believe in anything at all. He is the type of modern m...
JOHN P. VUKASIN JR. Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align ...
JOHN R. DALLAS JR. Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Sayin...
JOHN F. MACARTHUR JR. A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its mast...
JOHN R. DALLAS JR. Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR. I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking da...
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR. God's wisdom is like the rainbow, in symmetry, beauty, and variety. He does not paint scenes merely ...
JOHN F. MACARTHUR JR. Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive though...
JOHN R. DALLAS JR. The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know w...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. The success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR. If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. Th...
JOHN W. HOLT JR. What you cant forget... God cant remember!
JOHN F. MACARTHUR JR. I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my gra...
JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of u...
JOHN W. VESSEY, JR. I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, t...
JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. It's only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found.
JOHN FORBES NASH JR Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
JOHN F. KENNEDY JR. I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.
JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. 'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you ca...
JOHN DE MOL, JR.