"He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop."
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"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect."
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"To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching."
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"The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire."
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"Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is."
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"Learning is the very essence of humility . . ."
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"Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it; get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don't miss it."
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"The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice."
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"Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason."
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"One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind."
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"Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise."
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"The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance."
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"A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance."
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"The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage."
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"Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song."
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"In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts."
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"The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you."
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"Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect."
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"The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance."
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"Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists."
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