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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
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To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.
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To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions.
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To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
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To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
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To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.
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To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
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Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
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Today, we are announcing that agencies are releasing their final regulatory reform plans, including hundreds of initiatives that will reduce costs, simplify the system, and eliminate redundancy and inconsistency.
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Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
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Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
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Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
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