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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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Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be…
— Jonathan Schell
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Those who believe in this type of thing [Paul the Octopus, who ‘predicted’ the result of World Cup matches] cannot be the…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
— Armstrong Williams
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All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image…
— William Butler Yeats
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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their…
— Maimonides
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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other…
— John Locke
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The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found…
— Charles Dickens
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Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Humanity, divine limitation; Divinity, human perfection.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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