E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education ... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

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William James

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

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Alexander Pope

And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.

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Thomas A. Edison

All Bibles are man-made.

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Oscar Wilde

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

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Real Live Preacher

My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.

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Glenda Jackson

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

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Occam

Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate

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Poet Louise Bogan

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

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Virginia Kelley

There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.

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