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William Butler Yeats
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Katherine D. Ortega
In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life-the strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.
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Egyptian Book of the Dead
My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me.
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Samuel Johnson
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
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Peter Farquharson
Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.
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Airplane
Little Girl No thanks, I take it black, like my men.
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Euripides, Temenidae
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
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Charles Lamb
Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
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Lauren Bacall
You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.
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Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
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Robert F. Kennedy
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
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Benjamin Franklin
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.
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