Quotes from authors born in 1917
What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
Malcolm Forbes
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

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