Quotes from authors passed in 1916
The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.
William Ramsay
True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.
Cleveland Abbe
No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.
Sholom Aleichem
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
Henry James
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
Kofi Annan 
Howard Thurston 
Daniel Dae Kim 
Evo Morales 
Benjamin Silliman 
Luke Wilson 
Harry Knowles 
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