"[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of……" — John Dewey

"[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that makes an individual when he leaves school employ his special talents and superior skill to outwit his fellow without respect for the welfare of others"

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Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing.… — David O. McKay
...pay your tithes and offerings out of honesty and integrity because they are God's rightful due...Paying tithing is not a… — Jeffrey R. Holland
All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to… — Corinne Heline
I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion. — Richard Dawkins
The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon… — Thomas Starr King
By giving away food we get more strength. By bestowing clothing on others we gain more beauty. By donating abodes… — Gautama Buddha
Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing… — William Penn
FREEDOM CANNOT BE LICENSED, liberties cannot be regulated and rights cannot be granted. History teaches us that when the rights… — Steve Kubby
For a Christian to say, "I will not have anything to do with the great and worthy works of artists… — Frank E. Gaebelein
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure… — Jane Austen
To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to… — Isabelle Adjani
Many are poets, but without the name;For what is Poesy but to createFrom overfeeling Good or Ill; and aimAt an… — Lord Byron

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