Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

—Malcolm Forbes

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About Malcolm Forbes

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Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (August 19, 1919 – February 24, 1990) was an American businessman and politician most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, which was founded by his father B. C. Forbes. He represented Somerset County in the New Jersey Senate from 1952 to 1958 and ran two...

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Men who never get carried away should be.

—Malcolm Forbes

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

—Malcolm Forbes

Failure is success if we learn from it.

—Malcolm Forbes

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

—Malcolm Forbes

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

—Malcolm Forbes

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I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely “normal” life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more—much, much more.

—Melody Carlson in Finding Alice

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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

—Bertrand Russell

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Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

—David Letterman

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In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.

—Edward P. Tryon

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Every action of your life touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

—Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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