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Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
― Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852) -
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
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Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.
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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty - how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.
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Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.
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Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues.
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Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
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Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
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Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.
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Employers, like most people, tend to trust their intuitions. But when employers decide whom to hire, they trust those intuitions far more than they should.
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Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
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Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
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