It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism Here's to you and here's to me,
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But, if that should ever be,
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Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
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Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
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