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"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
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-- Theodor Reik Education "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Education
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Education I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Education
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Education A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Education
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
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-- Francis Crawford Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
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-- Jules Renard Education I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
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If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
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-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
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A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Education "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Education
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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believing you've witnessed the second coming.
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-- Dolly Parton Education "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Education
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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-- Gore Vidal The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
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-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Education
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Education Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Education
