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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The object in...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The object in...

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the...

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Joseph Goebbels: Intellectual activity is...

Joseph Goebbels: Intellectual activity is...

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

Source: In The...

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Diane Ravitch: The ladder was...

Diane Ravitch: The ladder was...

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were...

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Catharine Esther Beecher: As if reasoning...

Catharine Esther Beecher: As if reasoning...

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is...

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Addison Gayle, Jr: Power comes not...

Addison Gayle, Jr: Power comes not...

Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the...

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Charlotte Forten Grimke: I wonder that...

Charlotte Forten Grimke: I wonder that...

I wonder that every colored person is not a misanthrope. Surely we have everything to make us hate...

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Henry David Thoreau: What does education...

Henry David Thoreau: What does education...

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

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Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: True perfection is...

Kenneth MacKenzie Clark: True perfection is...

True perfection is achieved only by those who are prepared to destroy it. It is a by-product of...

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P D James: What the detective...

P D James: What the detective...

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

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Gertrude Stein: Native always means...

Gertrude Stein: Native always means...

Native always means people who belong somewhere else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the...

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Jiddu Krishnamurti: In oneself lies...

Jiddu Krishnamurti: In oneself lies...

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand....

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Is not life...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Is not life...

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Source: In Pearls...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Faith is the...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Faith is the...

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: Whatever glory belongs...

Mary McLeod Bethune: Whatever glory belongs...

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full...

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Sun Tzu [Wu]: If you know...

Sun Tzu [Wu]: If you know...

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but...

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Hannah Arendt: Revolutionaries do not...

Hannah Arendt: Revolutionaries do not...

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and...

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Alexandre Dumas, p?re: How is it...

Alexandre Dumas, p?re: How is it...

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does...

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Victor Hugo: He who opens...

Victor Hugo: He who opens...

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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George Bernard Shaw: How can what...

George Bernard Shaw: How can what...

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

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Stanislaw Lec: The weakest link...

Stanislaw Lec: The weakest link...

The weakest link in the chain is the strongest because it can break it.

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