Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

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Tom Robbins

When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.

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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates, 1991

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.

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Juvenal

Be gentle with the young.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father.

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Aldous Huxley

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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James Abram Garfield

If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

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Unknown

The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty.

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Epictetus

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported.

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