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Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at…
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Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the…
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People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology…
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Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is…
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Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they…
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Here is a truth that most teachers will not tell you, even if they know it: Good training is a continual friend…
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An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the…
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If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have…
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Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.
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If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of their own…
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Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.
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The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business. That we…
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Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy…
— Johannes Brahms
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I think the voters can make up their own minds.
— Jeb Bush
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If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom…
— Thomas Paine
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ;…
— William Blum
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Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what's more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the…
— Buddhadasa
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Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so are so. There is nothing…
— Thomas Hutchinson
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Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.
— Napoleon Hill
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Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe…
— Gautama Buddha
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Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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