The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject:
Education   
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Community   
Mankind   
American Presidential Quotes   
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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
Author:
H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
Subject:
Politics   
Common Sense   
Honesty   
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
Subject:
Patience   
Cynicism   
Sarcasm   
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So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.
Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject:
Genius   
Time   
Thinking   
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Author:
Winston Churchill
Subject:
Past   
Future   
British Prime Minister Quotes   
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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Life   
Health   
Spiritual   
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
America   
World   
American Presidential Quotes   
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Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Friendship   
Enemy   
American Presidential Quotes   
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Happiness   
Family   
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The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
Author:
Anon
Subject:
Decisions   
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
Author:
Paul Gauguin
Subject:
Art   
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America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
Author:
George W. Bush
Subject:
American Presidential Quotes   
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Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Author:
Socrates
Subject:
Food   
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Author:
Helen Keller
Subject:
Ambition   
Desires   
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Author:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Subject:
Life   
Laughter   
Adversity   
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Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Author:
Amelia Earhart
Subject:
Courage   
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What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.
Author:
Unknown
Subject:
Love & Romance   
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
Author:
Dave Barry
Subject:
Humor   
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Every burned book enlightens the world.
Author:
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject:
Books   
World   
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