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So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience. William James
When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the outsiders who don't know it are not merely inferior to them in skill but lower in God's eyes; as the priests said, 'All that rabble who are not experts in the Torah are accursed.' and as this pride increases, the 'subject' or study which confers such privilege will grow more and more complicated, the list of things forbidden will increase, till to get through a single day without supposed sin becomes like an elaborate... C. S. Lewis
Alexander Herzen quote: "Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it..."
Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears? and it does nothing. Alexander Herzen
When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine. Ellen DeGeneres
Ruth Rendell quote: "We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming..."
We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real. Ruth Rendell
It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule. J. R. R. Tolkien
C. S. Lewis quote: "Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend..."
Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape. C. S. Lewis
There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. Vincent Van Gogh
It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in a people. They grow used to the unthinkable, and sometimes they may look back and even wonder when things changed. Theywill not find a day or a time or a place. Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learnto ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it. Charles Morgan
Walt Whitman quote: "And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of..."
And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth. Walt Whitman
Jane Austen quote: "Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive..."
Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing. Jane Austen
The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally. Orson Scott Card
Nadine Gordimer quote: "Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold...."
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be. Nadine Gordimer
So with curious eyes and sick surmise. We watched him day by day, And wondered if each one of us. Would end the self-same way, For none can tell to what red Hell. His sightless soul may stray. Oscar Wilde
Have you noticed how dogs sniff at one another when they meet? It seems to be their nature.- Yes; it's a funny habit.- No, it's not funny; you are wrong there. There's nothing funny in nature, however funny it may seem to man. If dogs could reason and criticize us they'd be sure to find just as much that would be funny to them, if not far more, in the social relations of men, their masters -far more, I think. I am more convinced that there is far more foolishness among us. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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