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"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."
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"You multiply your life when you invest it."

"You play the game to the end. That's how it works, play to the end."

"We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions."

"Do it again and again. Consistency makes the rain drops to create holes in the rock. Whatever is difficult can be done easily with regular attendance, attention and action."

"Time management is the major difference between the rich and poor."

"I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta."

"When you know every well what to do and how to do it, your attitude determines how well you will have it done!"

"The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure."
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"We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part."

"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."

"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."

"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."

"Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion."

"Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?"

"Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later."
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