"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King."

Apostolius, Michael on blindness
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"My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness."

Keller, Helen on blindness   

"There's none so blind as they that won't see."

Swift, Jonathan on blindness   

"It's sad that, in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers"

Unknown, Source on blindness   

"Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."

Marquis, Don on blood
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"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."

Patton, George S. on blood
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"Those who can, do, those who can't teach; and those who can do neither, administer."

Calverley, Calvin on bureaucracy   

"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."

Mccarthy, Eugene J. on bureaucracy
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"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."

Mccarthy, Mary on bureaucracy   

"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization presented with the alternative of love or a garbage disposal unit, young people of all countries have chosen the garbage disposal unit."

Chtcheglov, Ivan on banality   

"There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!"

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on autumn
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"No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority."

Reichenbach, Hans on authority   

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

Aristotle on poetry and poets
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"The greatest of all sins is stupidity."

Wilde, Oscar on stupidity
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"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."

Carter, Jimmy on multiculturalism
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"She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again."

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De on altruism
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"Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. [Hebrews 13:2]"

Bible on angels
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"If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on angels
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"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake."

Milton, John on angels
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"We are each of us angels with only one wing, to fly we need only embrace each other."

Unknown, Source on angels
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"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."

Addison, Joseph on authority   

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"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

Gaulle, Charles De on authority
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"Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt."

Lindner, Robert on authority   

"I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark."

Thoreau, Henry David on determination
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."

Thoreau, Henry David on egotism
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"Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on complaints and complaining
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"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

Patton, George S. on courage
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"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"Love is what you've been through with somebody."

Thurber, James on love
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"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."

Thurber, James on humor
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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

Adams, Douglas on airplane and aviation
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"Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."

Toynbee, Arnold on civilization   

"Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic."

Stevens, Wallace on thoughts and thinking   

"One thought fills immensity."

Blake, William on thoughts and thinking   

"Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax."

Kettering, Charles F. on thoughts and thinking
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"What is the hardest thing in the world? To think."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking   

"It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on debt
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