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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine
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Use soft words and hard arguments.: English Proverb
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It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.: Bill Hicks
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.: Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.: Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984), quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Nothing you can't spell will ever work.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.: Walter Pater (1839 - 1894), 1873
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
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Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement.: Colby Dorr Dam
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.: Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974
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When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.: Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), Tel Quel 2 (1943)
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If you continue to expend your energy trying to change things that don’t really matter in the long run or that are not within your sphere of influence, you’ll wind up exhausted and frustrated, with no positive results to show for your effort.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.: Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"
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The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.: Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)