Quotes 21 till 40 of 640.
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I've always got such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them.
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Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
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Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. [The Root Of The Righteous]
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
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To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
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'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
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A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun. Her high selfsufficiency is her charme.
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A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
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A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
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A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
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