"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
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"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow."
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"There are more men ennobled by study than by nature."
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"Read less, study less, but think more"
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"That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist."
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"For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect of human nature. And second, I think, it is a good model for studying other human properties, which ought to be studied by psychologists in the same way."
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"The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body."
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"Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them."
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"The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you."
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"If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day."
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"I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up."
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"I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft."
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"The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application."
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"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply."
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"You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else."
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"If you once love Him, you will study to please Him."
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"I used to like studying a lot."
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"Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread"
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"The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser."
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"You can't really study people; you can only get to know them."
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