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| I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread |
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. |
US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 - 1965) |
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| The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men |
Henry B. Adams |
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| We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. |
Wernher Von Braun |
US (German-born) rocket engineer (1912 - 1977) |
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| Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight-lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere. |
Smiley Blanton |
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| I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good. |
Peter Cooper |
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| I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. |
Bill Hoest |
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| Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. |
William Feather |
(1908 - 1976) |
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| Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time. |
Edgar Watson Howe |
US journalist (1853 - 1937) |
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| Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance. |
Sidney Madwed |
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| What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors |
Keniche Ohnae |
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| Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business |
Charles M. Schwab |
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| The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity. |
Edwin Markham |
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| There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. |
George Santayana |
US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) |
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| It is better to live richly than to die rich. |
Author Unknown |
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| There it was, hidden in alphabetical order. |
Rita Holt |
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| Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them. |
Author Unknown |
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| One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup. |
Claude M. Bristol |
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| It sometimes seems that we have only to solve a thing greatly to get it. |
Robert Collier |
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| Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated. |
Robert Collier |
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| There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) |
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| The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. |
Kahlil Gibran |
Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 - 1931) |
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| Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. |
Claude A. Helvetius |
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| Desire creates the power. |
Raymond Holliwell |
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| For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are. |
D. H. Lawrence |
English novelist (1885 - 1930) |
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| The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest. |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
(Sherlock Holmes)
British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930) |
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| Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. |
Unknown |
quoted by Jim Horning
Quotations by unknown authors |
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| Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires. |
Manton |
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| I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that |
Stirling Moss |
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| The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so. |
Coventry Patmore |
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| "Where there is a will there is a way," is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. |
Samuel Smiles |
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| Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness. |
Author Unknown |
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| No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour. |
Randolph Silliman Bourne |
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| Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other. |
Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
English dramatist, novelist, & politician (1803 - 1873) |
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| Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny. |
Tyron Edwards |
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| Only fools are positive. |
Moe Howard |
US comedian with the Three Stooges (1897 - 1975) |
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| A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers. |
Epicurus |
Greek philosopher (341 BC - 270 BC) |
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| Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny. |
John Oliver Hobbes |
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| Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. |
John F. Kennedy |
US Democratic politician (1917 - 1963) |
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| Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. |
David Seabury |
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| But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. |
Alfred North Whitehead |
English mathematician & philosopher (1861 - 1947) |
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| In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results. |
James Allen |
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| The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will-stubborn will. |
Ferdinand Foch |
French general (1851 - 1929) |
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| To him who is determined it remains only to act. |
Italian |
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| Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold. |
Dr. A. B. Meldrum |
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| True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn |
Philip Massinger |
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| Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. |
William Shakespeare |
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) |
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| To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. |
Charles Talleyrand |
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| All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
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| We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are. |
Charles A. Stoddard |
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| Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order. |
Edwin Hubbel Chapin |
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| There are many shining qualities on the mind of man; but none so useful as discretion. It is this which gives a value to all the rest, and sets them at work in their proper places, and turns them to the advantage of their possessor. Without it, learning is pedantry; wit, impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he pleases in his station of life. |
Joseph Addison |
English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 - 1719) |
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| Free and fair discussion will ever be found the firmest friend to truth. |
G. Campbell |
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| The pain of dispute exceeds, by much, its utility. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb. |
Joseph Joubert |
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| He that is not open to conviction, is not qualified for discussion. |
Richard Whately |
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| It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do. |
C. C. Colton |
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| Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it. |
C. C. Colton |
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| We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) |
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| Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God. |
T. T. Munger |
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| Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. |
William Shakespeare |
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616) |
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| The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell. |
Willmott |
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| If you believe everything you read, better not read. |
Japanese Proverb |
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| I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream. |
John Alan Appleman |
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| Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. |
Robert Collier |
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| When you cease to dream you cease to live. |
Malcolm S. Forbes |
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| We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success. |
Orison Swett Marden |
(1850 - 1924) |
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| To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act! |
Alfred A. Montapert |
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| Big thinking precedes great achievement. |
Wilfred Peterson |
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| We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true. |
Denis Waitley |
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| A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. |
Author Unknown |
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| We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct. |
Author Unknown |
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| Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881) |
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| God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty. |
T. L. Cuyler |
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| Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother. |
George Eliot |
English novelist (1819 - 1880) |
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| Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) |
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| Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man. |
Mary Lyon |
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| It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any path for safety except that of duty. |
William Nevins |
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| Who escapes duty, avoids a gain. |
Theodore Parker |
US Unitarian clergyman (1810 - 1860) |
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| It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. |
Aristotle |
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) |
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| Early morning hath gold in its mouth. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
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| Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising. |
J. Todd |
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| Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all. |
Allan K. Chalmers |
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| To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful. |
Henry Tuckerman |
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| The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter. |
James R. Angell |
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| We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educatability of man -- the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before. |
Jerome Seymour Bruner |
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| The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition. |
Richard Clark |
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| Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. |
Franklin P. Jones |
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| It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need. |
John Dewey |
US educator, Pragmatist philosopher, & psychologist (1859 - 1952) |
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| It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. |
Albert Einstein |
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955) |
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| We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) |
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| The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. |
Robert Frost |
US poet (1874 - 1963) |
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| I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. |
John W. Gardner |
US administrator (1912 - ) |
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| No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. |
John Holt |
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| Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible. |
Robert M. Hutchins |
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| I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. |
Alice James |
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| You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. |
Samuel Johnson |
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) |
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| I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. |
Garrison Keillor |
US humorist & radio broadcaster (1942 - ) |
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| Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation. |
John F. Kennedy |
US Democratic politician (1917 - 1963) |
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| Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance. |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th president of US (1809 - 1865) |
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| A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. |
John Lubbock |
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| Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. |
Horace Mann |
US educator (1796 - 1859) |
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