"Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."

Birrell, Augustine on libraries
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"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully."

Edwards, Tryon on enthusiasm
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"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

Lewis, C. S. on education
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"Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire."

Yeats, William Butler on motivation
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"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better."

Anderson, Laurie Halse on paradise   

"A liberal is a power worshipper without the power."

Orwell, George on liberals
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"Success is a journey, not a destination."

Sweetland, Ben on success
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"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."

Frost, Robert on power
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"Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain."

Cook, Robert A. on complaints and complaining
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"The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?"

Gatty, Margaret on conflict
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"We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists."

Lippmann, Walter on belief
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"Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors."

Bernstein, Leonard on techniques   

"When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader."

Truman, Harry S on politics   

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"To retire is to die."

Casals, Pablo on retirement   

"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."

Thoreau, Henry David on eccentricity
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"We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on america
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"A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money."

Glass, Carter on liberals
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"Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."

Watts, Alan W. on zen
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"Journalism is organized gossip."

Eggleston, Edward on journalism and journalists
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"Belief gets in the way of learning."

Heinlein, Robert on belief
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"Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another."

Ebers, George on friends and friendship
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"Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase."

Walters, Dottie on success
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"Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on perception   

"Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best."

Palmer, Jim on losers and losing
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"Few love to hear the sins they love to act."

Shakespeare, William on sin
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"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"

Scully, Frank on risk
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"If you wait until the wind and the weather are just right, you will never plant anything and never harvest anything."

Bible on procrastination
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"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."

Blake, William on nudity   

"The best way to know God is to love many things."

Gogh, Vincent Van on love
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"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on learning
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"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."

James, Clive on vision
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"Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle on wit
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"Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses."

Mencken, H. L. on democracy   

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death."

Ferber, Edna on writers and writing
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

Brodsky, Joseph on books - reading
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"The more corrupt the state, the more laws."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on law and lawyers
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"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die."

Lennon, John on peace
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"You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too."

Capriati, Jennifer on focus