From The Young American

No one should be a governor who has not a talent for governing. Now many people have a native skill for carving out business for many hands; a genius for the disposition of affairs; and are never happier than when difficult practical questions, which embarrass other men, are to be solved. All lies in light before them; they are in their element. Could any means be contrived to appoint only those!

Ralph Waldo Emerson, ``The Young American,'' a lecture read before the Mercantile Library Association, Boston, February 7, 1844

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A digital photo of Gloria climbing stairs into the Stanford football stadium. It looks like it's been photoshopped (click it), but it wasn't.