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Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
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The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.
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There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs-partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
Source: My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience (1911) -
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 am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
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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 has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
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A man in public life expects to be sneered at - it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
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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 man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
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A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
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A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
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