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Samuel McChord Crothers
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“To keep shooting at a folly after it is dead is unsportsmanlike.”
Samuel McChord Crothers (1857–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory.”
Samuel McChord Crothers (1857–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no absurdity in its mental processes; all that is concealed in its assumptions.”
Samuel McChord Crothers (1857–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Creative spirits always anticipate the course of events. They do not wait for the dawn of a new era. They resolutely begin the new era at the moment when they see that the old era is ended. The darkness gathers, but it is a time, not for vain repining over that which has passed away, but for eager planning for that which must take its place. There is a quick transfer of interests to new problems which relate themselves to the new period.”
Samuel McChord Crothers (1857–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“History is an endless maze of unrelated happenings, until we divide it up into brief portions in which we discern a certain unity of purpose.”
Samuel McChord Crothers (1857–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the meantime, the real America had awakened, but in its own way. It had awakened, not as a neurasthenic awakes to a vague and benumbing sense of helplessness in the presence of disaster, but as a strong man awakes to the magnitude of his necessary work.”
Samuel McChord Crothers (1857–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source