Charles Johnson:
CLASS OF 2011
Claremont McKenna CollegeClass of 2011
Claremont, CA
Charles's Story
Charles is from Milton, Massachusetts. Charles works(ed) at The Wall Street Journal, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Music Charles likes includes William Howard Taft, Radiohead, Lady Gaga. Books Charles likes include The Walking Dead Novels, Ha Jin, Teaching America: The Case for Civic Education. Movies Charles likes include Enemy at the Gates, Minority Report, Finding Neverland. TV shows Charles likes include Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead, Terra Nova.
One of Charles's favorite quotes is:""Nothing is written." -- Lawrence of Arabia
"The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume I, "Speech on the Sub-Treasury" (in the Illinois House of Representatives, December 26, 1839), p. 178.
"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so unt...Expand for more
il the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter (Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1995), pp. 258-259.
A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister⦠For it is bravery that is required to secure freedom. -- Clarence Thomas
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." -- Calvin Coolidge".
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