The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through. - Harry Allen Overstreet - Quotesmemo.com

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The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you've only got ten.

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Harry Allen Overstreet

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

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A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race.

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The happiest thing that can be said about democracy. . . is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.

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If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.

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Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

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To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

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