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Albert & Emily Vail, Transforming Light (pg 254)
The measuring rod of a civilization is the prosperity of the masses.
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Elizabeth Bowen
No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye.
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Benjamin Franklin
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
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Batman
The Joker Here we are, the perfect pair... Beauty and the Beast. Mind you, if anybody calls you beast, I'll rip their lungs out.
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Tryon Edwards
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
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Blaise Pascal
It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
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William Shakespeare
How use doth breed a habit in a man.
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Jewish Proverb
If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living.
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James Madison, (attributed)
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
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Gail Godwin
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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