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One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own… — Georg Groddeck
A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which… — Abdoulaye Wade
First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and… — Alexander Lebed
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot. — L. Sprague de Camp
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of… — Marguerite Yourcenar
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his… — Charles Peguy
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. — Al Bernstein
It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an… — Mikhail Gorbachev
I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher. — John Philip Sousa
A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health. — Gilbert Highet
I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his. — Catherine the Great
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. — James Joyce
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived… — Stephen Greenblatt
Taking privacy cues from the federal government is - to say the least - ironic, considering today's Orwellian level of surveillance. At virtually any given… — Bob Barr
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine… — Henry Charles Carey
The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. — B. C. Forbes
No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. — E. W. Howe
An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother. — Martin Sheen
Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded. — Sidney Blumenthal
It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward. — John C. Portman, Jr.
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform… — Laozi
One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him. — Laozi
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

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