Quote by Thurgood Marshall
I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect t

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband. – Thurgood Marshall

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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots. – Thurgood Marshall

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Todays Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish. – Thurgood Marshall

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Freedom
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Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control mens minds. – Thurgood Marshall

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There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. – Peter Drucker

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Retirement

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. – Gail Sheehy

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Retirement

When you retire, you switch bosses — from the one who hired you to the one who married you. – Gene Perret

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Retirement

Retire from work, but not from life. – M.K. Soni

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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. – Havelock Ellis

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We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. – Sir Arthur Eddington

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I believe in the sun even if it isnt shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent. – Anon.

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