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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but…
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it…
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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be…
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here…
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop…
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it…
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to…
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
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If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the…
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Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart…
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What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.
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How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling…
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Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that…
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The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration,…
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Habit: A shackle for the free.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted…
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My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the…
— Igor Stravinsky
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Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.
— Esther Williams
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This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.
— Allan Bloom
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You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall…
— Khalil Gibran
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