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- Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. — Henry David Thoreau
- Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. — Mohandas Gandhi
- A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. — H. L. Mencken
- We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever. — James W. Black
- My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives. — James W. Black
- I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion. — James W. Black