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Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless… — Richard Mitchell
The early Rockefellers made their wealth from being in certain businesses and remained personally very wealthy. Tata's were different in the sense the future generations… — Ratan Tata
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just… — Nicholas D. Kristof
Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. — Jean Genet
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite. — Dan Quayle
The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the… — H. L. Mencken
When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars. — Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to be reminded of a basic fact: intelligence belongs to the watching consciousness; memory belongs to the mind. Memory is one thing -… — Rajneesh
I would like a world full of love. But remember, that love has no opposite to it. It is simply because you inside yourself have… — Rajneesh
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. — Oscar Wilde
In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no mind at all.… — Rajneesh
Awareness means that whatsoever is happening in the moment is happening with complete consciousness; you are present there. If you are present when anger is… — Rajneesh
Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in… — Rajneesh
The society wants you to have beautiful personalities; the society wants you to have personalities which are comfortable for the society, convenient for the society.… — Rajneesh
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in… — Dorothy Day
It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical… — Bertrand Russell
The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before… — Lynn Margulis
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. — John B. S. Haldane
The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. — Richard Avedon
We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art. — Josef Albers
You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where… — Charles R. Swindoll
There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed. — Sandra Bernhard
I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened. — Andrew Carnegie
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is… — C. Northcote Parkinson

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