"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all"

Socrates on education
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"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

Socrates on desire
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"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

Socrates on death
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"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. "

Socrates on uncategorised   

"The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms."

Socrates on wisdom
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"Naturam rerum cognoscere primum. "First know the nature of things" or "Get your facts straight first"."

Socrates on
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"Sidere mens eadum mutato. "The stars may be different, but the spirit is the same.""

Socrates on   

"Any Government, like any family, can for a year spend a little more than it earns. But you and I know that a continuation of that habit means the poorhouse. "

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on uncategorised   

"Those of you who have been there [Haiti] know it is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It has everything. It has everything above the ground, and everything under the ground. It is an amazing place. I strongly recommend that whenever you get a chance, if you havent been there, that you go to Haiti. I think it was a certain Queen of England who said that after her death Calais would be found written on her heart. When I die, I think that Haiti is going to be written on my heart. "

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on uncategorised   

"We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised   

"As to diseases, make a habit of two thingsto help, or at least to do no harm. The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must co-operate with the physician in combating the disease. "

Hippocrates on uncategorised   

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. "

Hamilton, Alexander on uncategorised   

"Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. "

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on uncategorised   

"Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less. "

Lee, Robert E. on uncategorised   

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Jung, Carl on imitation
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"Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."

Jung, Carl on imagination
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"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

Jung, Carl on happiness
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"Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill."

Churchill, Winston on intentions
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"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose."

Churchill, Winston on golf
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"I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk."

Churchill, Winston on alcohol and alcoholism
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."

Churchill, Winston on expression
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"We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage."

Churchill, Winston on age and aging
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"The maxim of the British people is Business as usual."

Churchill, Winston on nations
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"I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks."

Churchill, Winston on planning
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"Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

Churchill, Winston on solitude
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"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."

Churchill, Winston on character
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"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future."

Churchill, Winston on time
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"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

Churchill, Winston on wordiness
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"How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?"

Plante, Jacques on hockey   

"The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours."

Fleming, Peggy on sports
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"Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk."

Unknown, Source on sports   

"Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen."

Cather, Willa on winter   

"To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow."

Johnson on gold   

"Share our similarities, celebrate our differences."

Peck, M. Scott on cooperation   

"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves."

Wolfe, Thomas on cooking
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"The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it."

Wolfe, Thomas on books - reading
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"Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best."

Wolfe, Thomas on death