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An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.
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An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What’s your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books'.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (2015) -
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
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An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.
Atlas Shrugged (1957) -
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
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An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
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An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.
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An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
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An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.
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Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
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Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
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