One time I heard Grove Patterson, the great late editor-in-chief of The Toledo Blade, make a speech, and as he concluded his speech he said something… - Earl Nightingale

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One time I heard Grove Patterson, the great late editor-in-chief of The Toledo Blade, make a speech, and as he concluded his speech he said something I’ve never forgotten. He said, “My years in the newspaper business have convinced me of several things, among them that people are basically good and that we came from someplace and we’re going someplace, so we should make our time here an exciting adventure. The architect of the universe didn’t build a stairway leading nowhere.