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The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Well-being is like water moving down hill. When you block the water, the water turns into a reservoir, reservoir of well-being instead of a flow… — John de Ruiter
We hear many offers from the world around us; but let us take up God's offer instead: his is a caress of love. For God,… — Pope Francis
Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead. — Dalai Lama
Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best… — Mahatma Gandhi
To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better… — Mahatma Gandhi
Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead. — George D. Prentice
I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of… — John Huston
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his… — Mark Twain
Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines… — Dave Barry
Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand. — Virginia Woolf
What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and… — Max Lerner
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases… — Thomas Carlyle
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our… — Thomas Carlyle
...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old… — Saul Bellow
When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic. — John Ruskin
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of… — Leo Tolstoy
Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And… — George Eliot
I believe that virtually everyone has the ability to either grow some food at home, or to find an appropriate location to start a garden.… — Greg Peterson
If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no… — Peter Kreeft
It’s right to say that people fall in love. We don’t glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first from the moment… — Martin Pistorius
Jeb Bush gave a speech yesterday. He had a pretty rough time. He accidentally said that ISIS has 200,000 men instead of 20,000, and then… — Jimmy Fallon
We need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday… — Michael Crichton
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid… — Tacitus

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