Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 30.
“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than
any other.”
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Jay Samit (1961) American businessman
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Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union
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“Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
"Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company." This was a French maxim, late 16th century, as quoted by George Washington in his "Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation," Rule # 56 (ca. 1744) http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents/civility/transcript.html <br class="br">Misattributed