"Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable."

Fuller, Buckminster on mind
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"The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use."

Dorsey, George A. on mind
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"The Brain is wider than the sky-."

Dickinson, Emily on mind
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"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open."

Dewar, Thomas Robert on mind
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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last."

Poe, Edgar Allan on death
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"The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife."

Rochester, Earl on wives   

"All men would be cowards if they could."

Rochester, Earl on war   

"Here lies our Sovereign Lord, the King whose word no man relies on: He never said a foolish thing nor ever did a wise one."

Rochester, Earl on royalty   

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

Lombardi, Vince on commitment
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"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on belief
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"The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid."

Poe, Edgar Allan on grammar
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"It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."

Poe, Edgar Allan on imagination
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"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."

Poe, Edgar Allan on religion
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"That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward."

Poe, Edgar Allan on war
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"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."

Poe, Edgar Allan on thoughts and thinking
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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

Poe, Edgar Allan on beauty
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"With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."

Poe, Edgar Allan on poetry and poets   

"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."

Poe, Edgar Allan on animals
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Poe, Edgar Allan on insanity
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"My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed."

Ginsberg, Allen on students   

"Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings."

Walker, Lou Ann on students
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"I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning."

Rogers, Carl on students
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"Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses."

Arendt, Hannah on words
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"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."

Bacharach, Burt on words
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"I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
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"The words of the world want to make sentences."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
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"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

Aristotle on
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"Well begun is half done."

Aristotle on action
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"A man is a god in ruins."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on age and aging
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"Earth laughs in flowers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on flowers
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"How much of human life is lost in waiting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on expectation
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"The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eloquence
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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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