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17188 quotes by 6763 authors
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Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,…
— H. L. Mencken
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Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we…
— Gabriela Mistral
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
— John Stuart Mill
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Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.
— George W. Bush
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It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're…
— Wally Amos
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An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.
— Martin Luther
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We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I…
— Angelina Jolie
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You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.
— Woodrow Wilson
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In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom: left to themselves they will seek it, cherish it, and view any deprivation of it with regret.…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature…
— Zhuangzi
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The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don't be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I cannot understand how God can give to any of His children glory and virtue, but it nevertheless is true that He does.... There is…
— Smith Wigglesworth
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He who keeps his faith only, cannot be discrowned.
— James Russell Lowell
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If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to…
— Charles Luckman
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When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.
— Matthew Henry
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The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people…
— Pearl S. Buck
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It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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