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Learning to speak, therefore, and the power it brings of intelligent converse with others, is a most impressive further step along the path of independence… — Maria Montessori
... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This… — Maria Montessori
Under the urge of nature and according to the laws of development, though not understood by the adult, the child is obliged to be serious… — Maria Montessori
Wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. — James Russell Lowell
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and… — Samuel Johnson
Dating a new man is like holding a strawberry milkshake; first the taste, then the pleasure. — Marilyn Monroe
I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the… — Marcel Proust
Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained within ten simple digits, lay… — Alan Coren
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is… — Charles Caleb Colton
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. — Charles Caleb Colton
Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's. — E. M. Forster
In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into… — Christopher Fry
Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he… — Samuel Johnson
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the first things they teach you in Driver's Ed is where to put your hands on the steering wheel. They tell you put… — George Carlin
In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down,… — George Carlin
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination… — Michel de Montaigne
The first point of courtesy must always be truth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a… — Tertullian
[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy… — N. T. Wright

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