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Abigail ADAMS:
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and
attended to with diligence. |
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Marian ANDERSON: You lose a lot of time,
hating people. |
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ARISTOTLE:
Education is the best provision for old age. |
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ARISTOTLE:
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it. |
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Marcus AURELIUS:
How ridiculous and what a stranger he is who is surprised at anything
which happens in life. |
James BALDWIN: I imagine one of the reasons
people cling to their hates
so stubbornly is because they sense, once the hate is gone, they
will be
forced to deal with pain. |
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James BALDWIN: These are all our children.
We will profit by, or pay for, whatever they become. |
Lerone BENNETT, Jr.: An educator in a
system of oppression is either a
revolutionary or an oppressor. |
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Louis BLANC:
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. |
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George Washington CARVER: Education is the
key to unlock the golden door
of freedom. |
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Sir Winston CHURCHILL:
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the
subject. |
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Sir Winston CHURCHILL:
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. |
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Sir Winston CHURCHILL:
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at
the results. |
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Sir Winston CHURCHILL:
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except
all the others that have been tried. |
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Sir Winston CHURCHILL:
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the
room. |
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Sir Winston CHURCHILL:
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that
anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and
hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must
realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of
policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. |
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Sir Winston CHURCHILL:
The price of greatness is responsibility. |
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Sir Winston CHURCHILL:
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. |
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Eldridge CLEAVER: The price of hating other
human beings is loving oneself less. |
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CONFUCIUS:
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. |
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CONFUCIUS:
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. |
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CONFUCIUS:
Respect yourself and others will respect you. |
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CONFUCIUS:
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is
perilous. |
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Frederick DOUGLASS: Educate your sons and
daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the
cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have
the knowledge box. |
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Frederick DOUGLASS: A little learning,
indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a
calamity to any people. |
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W.E.B. DU BOIS: Either the United States
will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United
States. |
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Thomas EDISON:
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. |
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EPICTETUS:
Only the educated are free. |
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Benjamin FRANKLIN:
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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Benjamin FRANKLIN:
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. |
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Benjamin FRANKLIN:
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion
and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning
will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and
crimes from society. |
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Benjamin FRANKLIN:
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. |
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Benjamin FRANKLIN:
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. |
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Benjamin FRANKLIN:
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. |
