Famous quotes containing the words oldest, winner and/or individual:
“The oldest hath borne most; we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite and individual over the general truth. The condition of our incarnation in a private self, seems to be, a perpetual tendency to prefer the private law, to obey the private impulse, to the exclusion of the law of the universal being.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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