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The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which… — Jonathan Kozol
The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a single catastrophe which… — Walter Benjamin
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular… — Joseph Butler
We call it infectious impatience. That's his hallmark and we are trying to inculcate it in the entire organization. Infectious impatience. So that things not… — Mukesh Ambani
We call ourselves a "capacity building" organization; self-motivated and self-initiated capacity building. For example, in 30 years, I don't think I have signed a check… — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He… — H.G. Wells
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. — Mark Twain
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than… — Paulo Coelho
There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert… — Henry Mackenzie
There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its… — Stevie Smith
Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads. — Hamza Yusuf
Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people… — Noam Chomsky
The problems of our day loom ominously before us. Surrounded by the sophistication of modern living, we look heavenward for that unfailing sense of direction,… — Thomas S. Monson
This Sabbath day has been designated as a day of thanksgiving, a day of gratitude-even a day of prayer. We pause, we ponder, we reflect… — Thomas S. Monson
Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food. With a… — Dallin H. Oaks
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and… — Dan Simmons
In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance. — Phillis Wheatley
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks. — Countee Cullen
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As it moves along, it… — Bill Viola
The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic,… — Jean Baudrillard
It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
George Bush calls his biggest fundraisers Rangers and Pioneers. We gather here today and we call ourselves simply Americans. — Howard Dean
What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to. — Clifford Geertz
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson
We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’ — Jon Kabat-Zinn

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