Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands..................................
and at whom it is aimed.
Josef Stalin
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Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands..................................
and at whom it is aimed.
Josef Stalin
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A critic is a man who knows the way........................................
but can't drive the car.
Kenneth Tynan
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Good character is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion............................................
that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
-E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944
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Wisdom is a variable possession........................................
Every man is wise when pursued by a mad dog,...................................
fewer when pursued by a mad woman;......................................
only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Robertson Davies, Marchbanks' Almanac
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There are two principles of established acceptance in morals;...............................
first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions,...................................
and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1820
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The only thing bad about a holiday is ...............................................
it is followed by a non-holiday.
Anon.
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Motivation is what gets you started..............................................
Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun
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A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy..............................................
The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I dont know and I dont care.
Richard Pratt
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"To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes..............................................
may be the biggest mistake of all."
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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"...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life,................................
the children; those who are in the twilight of life,...................................
the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life;...................................
the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
Hubert Humphrey, from his last speech, Washington, D.C., November 1, 1977
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer...............................
but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
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If we weren't all crazy,.........................................
we would go insane.
Jimmy Buffett
They speak of my drinking....................................................
but never think of my thirst"
Scottish Proverb
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"Laws are often made by fools,........................................
and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality:.......................................
but always by men, vain authorities who can resolve nothing.”
Michel de Montaigne
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To the world you might be one person, ............................................
but to one person you might be the world.
Anon.
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"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
Confucius
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Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, ..........................................
are going to fall into the river
American Indian Proverb, Tuscarora
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"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger...................................
than the causes of it."
Marcus Aurelius
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There are risks and costs to a program of action. ...................................................
But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders..............................................
It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change.
Peter Drucker
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"Friends are treasures."
Horace Bruns
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Learning by experience often is painful- ..........................................
and the more it hurts, the more you learn.
Ralph Banks
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Believe those who seek the truth,......................................
doubt those who find it; ................................
doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
André Gide, from "Ainsi soit-il" [So Be It] (Journal 1939-1949
When George Washington threw the dollar across the Rappahannock River,.......................
he didn't realize he was establishing a precedent for government spending.
Harold Coffin, "The San Francisco Examiner"
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