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- Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent…
- Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and…
- Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter;…
- Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake…
- If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the…
- Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he…
- The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.
- There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out in…
- Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate…
- The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and to enlarge his talents. It is a place…
- In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid…
- Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands…
- Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished…
- But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This…
- Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles or our bombers,…
- 'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the…
- We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than…
- This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer poverty than any…
- Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.
- First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government, with…
- There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their…
- If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also…
- It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
- I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
- The family is the corner stone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- 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