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Bertrand Russell
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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Antonio Porchia
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
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Jimmy Carter
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
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Pablo Picasso
Art washes away the dust of everyday life.
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Calvin Trillin
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon.
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Henry H. Haskins
He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.
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George Bernard Shaw
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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Mencius
Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.
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Epictetus
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
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