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Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We…
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
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The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one…
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A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
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What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
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Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own…
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The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and…
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The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live…
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A good teacher is a determined person
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The Sonnets of Shakespeare have the fascination of an autobiography, without its clarity. It is like reading an important document in a…
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I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.
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Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.
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Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.
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Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines…
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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
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Church membership was so important that Paul and Silas baptized the Philippian jailer into the membership of Christ's church at midnight with…
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Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what…
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Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of…
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is…
— Eugene Delacroix
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Although you should not erase your responsibility for the past, when you make the past your jailer, you destroy your future. It…
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