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Peter S. Jennison
The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.
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Voltaire
I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul.
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Danish proverb
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
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Publilius Syrus
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
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Plato
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
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Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.
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Mark Twain
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?
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Marcus Valerius Martialis
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Oscar Wilde
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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Pyrrhus, from Plutarch, Lives
Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
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Dan Quayle, to reporters in 10/88
Public speaking is very easy.
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