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- Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects…
- I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing…
- The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or…
- Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
- When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains…
- The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.
- When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that…
- There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.
- In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings…
- Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with…
- Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and…
- We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer,…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle