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Aristotle
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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Richard Feynman
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
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Charles De Gaulle
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
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Plato
There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.
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Fred Rogers
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
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Florence Scovel Shinn
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
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Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
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John Milton
A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
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Johann von Goethe
Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
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Roy D. Chapin, Jr.
Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.
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Sir Winston Churchill
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
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