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Charles Buxton: In life, as...

Charles Buxton: In life, as...

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Nancy Astor: The penalty of...

Nancy Astor: The penalty of...

The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

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Antonio Gramsci: [A]fter puberty the...

Antonio Gramsci: [A]fter puberty the...

[A]fter puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious. . . . Now it so...

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Plutarch: The mind is...

Plutarch: The mind is...

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.

Source: In The...

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George Santayana: Reason and happiness...

George Santayana: Reason and happiness...

Reason and happiness are like other flowers -- they wither when plucked.

Source: In...

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Gotthold Lessing: What education is...

Gotthold Lessing: What education is...

What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.

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Jean Jacques Rousseau: Do not judge,...

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Do not judge,...

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Alain Locke: Art must discover...

Alain Locke: Art must discover...

Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.

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Ivan Turgenev: Most people can't...

Ivan Turgenev: Most people can't...

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

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Mahatma Gandhi: Capital as such...

Mahatma Gandhi: Capital as such...

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A great man...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: A great man...

A great man is always willing to be little.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Immanuel Kant: Have patience awhile;...

Immanuel Kant: Have patience awhile;...

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate...

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Stephen Leacock: Golf may be...

Stephen Leacock: Golf may be...

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral...

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Kelly Miller: I see that...

Kelly Miller: I see that...

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the...

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Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and...

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Mark Hopkins: Christianity is the...

Mark Hopkins: Christianity is the...

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

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Mark Hopkins: Language is the...

Mark Hopkins: Language is the...

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

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Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

Diane Ravitch: The greatest obstacle...

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.

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Freda Adler: It is not...

Freda Adler: It is not...

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still...

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Warren Bennis: Failing organizations are...

Warren Bennis: Failing organizations are...

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

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