"Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future."

Paglia, Camille on education   

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Roosevelt, Theodore on education
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"There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance."

Ali Ibn Abi-Talib on education
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"We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making."

Pearce, Joseph Chilton on environment   

"We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers."

Pearce, Joseph Chilton on environment   

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

Native American saying on environment
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"I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad."

Terence on excess
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"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

Aristotle on education
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"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other."

Faulkner, William on facts
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"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong."

Fuller, Thomas on facts
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"You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Novels are longer than life."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on fiction   

"There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative."

Doctorow, E. L. on fiction   

"All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them."

Hughes, Richard on fiction   

"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."

James, Henry on fiction   

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

King, Stephen on fiction
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"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."

Aurelius, Marcus on focus
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"Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on focus
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"Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on focus
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"To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next year, then never deviating from your plan. Once you can see, touch and feel your objective, all you have to do is pull back and put all your strength behind it, and you'll hit your target every time."

Jenner, Bruce on focus
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"Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus."

Lewis, Carol on focus
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"Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader."

Meyer, Paul J. on focus
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"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."

Parkinson, C. Northcote on focus   

"Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on focus   

"The basis of effective government is public confidence."

Kennedy, John F. on government
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"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."

Reagan, Ronald on government
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"Past failures are guideposts to success."

Unknown, Source on failure   

"The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall."

Unknown, Source on failure   

"It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going."

Tracy, Brian on failure
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"A concept is stronger than a fact."

Gillman, Charlotte P. on facts   

"Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism."

Huxley, Aldous on facts   

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

Adams, John on facts   

"The fatal futility of Fact."

James, Henry on facts   

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on facts
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on facts
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"Failure is the tuition you pay for success."

Brunell, Walter on failure
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"The only people who never fail are those who never try."

Chase, Ilka on failure
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"Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success."

Haliburton, Thomas C. on failure
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"He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great."

Melville, Herman on failure
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