University of St Andrews Union Debating Society/1925%e2%80%931979

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    “Cold an old predicament of the breath:
    Adroit, the shapely prefaces complete,
    Accept the university of death.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “O can’t you see, brother—
    Death’s a congested road for fighters now,
    and hero a cheap label.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)

    “How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia?... the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.”
    —Golda Meir (1898–1978)

    “Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.”
    —Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

    “The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)