"The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. "

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"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

Washington, George on freedom
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"Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

Washington, George on government
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"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."

Washington, George on profanity
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"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor on ideas
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"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."

Hugo, Victor on education
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"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor on ideas
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"Those who live are those who fight."

Hugo, Victor on life
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"Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause."

Hugo, Victor on argument
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"Life is a voyage."

Hugo, Victor on life   

"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time."

Hugo, Victor on waste
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"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."

Hugo, Victor on common sense
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"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."

Hugo, Victor on compliments
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"Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on freedom
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"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."

Montapert, Alfred A. on achievement
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"If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either."

Unknown, Source on achievement
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"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."

Mailer, Norman on democracy
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"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."

Hugo, Victor on adversity
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"A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you."

Clark, Ramsey on right and rightness
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"If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world."

Sivananda, Sri Swami on anger
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

Aristotle on madness
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"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"

Ballard, J. G. on madness
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"Genius is sorrow's child."

Adams, John on genius
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"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."

Dryden, John on genius
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"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it... the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."

Hamilton, Alexander on genius
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"He who does not hope to win has already lost."

Olmedo, Jose Joaquin on hope
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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

Hugo, Victor on happiness
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"If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host."

Heatter, Gabriel on happiness
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"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."

Goodman, Roy on happiness
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"Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept."

Keyes Jr., Ken on happiness   

"We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on happiness
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"We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier."

Landor, Walter Savage on happiness
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"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet."

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert on happiness
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"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first."

Bailey, Pearl on change
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"The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing."

Bastos, Augusto Roa on change
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"The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it."

Baudrillard, Jean on change
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