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The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and…
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Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such…
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author;…
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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
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Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to…
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was…
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In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search…
— Louis Agassiz
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General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I give culture this meaning: exercise of thought, acquisition of general ideas, habit of connecting causes and effects ... I believe that…
— Antonio Gramsci
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The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out…
— Joshua Reynolds
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I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification…
— Marlene Dumas
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The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas…
— John Locke
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Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To…
— Robert Dallek
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My journey has been so full of struggle and I just want to be able to offer some help and some general…
— Linda Hamilton
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