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John Adams quote: "There are two types of education... One should teach us how to..."

There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.

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But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Douglas Adams
Dawn Powell quote: "All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly."
All Americans come from Ohio originally, if only briefly. Dawn Powell
I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard. Susan Hampshire
Neil Gaiman quote: "You know you can set fire to the capacity to say."
You know you can set fire to the capacity to say. Neil Gaiman
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. George Saunders
If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support. Clive Anderson
Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training. Arne Jacobsen
Bret Easton Ellis quote: "All of my books come from pain."
All of my books come from pain. Bret Easton Ellis
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked. ‘Where do you want to go?’ was his response. ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it doesn’t matter. Lewis Carroll
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. Bono
Milan Kundera quote: "To laugh is to live profoundly."
To laugh is to live profoundly. Milan Kundera
The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him.? they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality. Thomas Mann
Howard Schultz quote: "Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than..."
Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others think possible. Howard Schultz
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "Remind me never to piss you off ... Are you as good at being a..."
Remind me never to piss you off ... Are you as good at being a friend as you are an enemy? Laurell K. Hamilton
Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these... Leo Tolstoy