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The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
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God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us… — Bono Copy Share Image
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The ultimate check against government tyranny is an informed electorate who will elect people who believe in limited government. I don't want… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroying—or at… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
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“Blood had long since ceased to beat from one end to the other, but one could sense, from passages marked with fresher… — Julien Gracq Copy Share Image
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We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
What made al Qaeda retrieve the doctrine of militant jihad, and Breivik the ideas of crusade and reconquest, is a sense of… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
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I don't think workaholic is in the dictionary as an affliction, but it's obviously someone who has a disease, and I don't… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
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Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
They want more production and they want it cheaper. But no matter what happens, the creative idea will be perpetuated by somebody… — Joe Grant Copy Share Image
In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
A lot of these ideas are built under wrong presumptions which officials have that chess players are lazy bastards whose sole idea… — Boris Gelfand Copy Share Image
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