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There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as…
— William Booth
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If we're ignorant of the historical sacrifices that made our liberties possible, we will be less likely to make the sacrifices again so that those…
— Walter E. Williams
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No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the…
— Alasdair Gray
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I take a less gloomy view. A good life means fighting to be human under growing difficulties. A lot of young folk know this and…
— Alasdair Gray
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I dont listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a…
— Ben Webster
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The best schools tend to have the best teachers, not to mention parents who supervise homework, so there is less need for self-organised learning. But…
— Sugata Mitra
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All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its…
— Christopher Alexander
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Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on…
— Harriet Lerner
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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe…
— Walter Scott
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For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their…
— Samuel Smiles
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Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows…
— John Keats
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On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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There is a race between the increasing complexity of the systems we build and our ability to develop intellectual tools for understanding their complexity. If…
— Leslie Lamport
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Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the answer-well, answers are…
— Roger Schank
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If you stay up late and you have another hour of work to do, you can just stay up another hour later without running into…
— Bill Joy
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We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.
— Donald Fagen
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The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep…
— Phillis Wheatley
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If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if…
— Stephen L. Carter
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Studies show that organically grown crops produce more of the things (ascorbic acid, lycopenes, resveratrol, flavonols in general, etc) that our bodies need and also…
— Michael Pollan
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