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"If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest."
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G. I. Gurdjieff
"If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest."
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"If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world."
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Vinoba Bhave
"If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world."
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"Consciousness is a disease."
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Miguel de Unamuno
"Consciousness is a disease."
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"A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about."
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Miguel de Unamuno
"A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about."
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"In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends."
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
"In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends."
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"The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people."
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Paulo Freire
"The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people."
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"Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth."
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Ferdinand de Saussure
"Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth."
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"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation."
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D. Elton Trueblood
"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation."
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"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world."
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Maria Montessori
"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world."
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"Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you."
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Miguel de Unamuno
"Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you."
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"Man is a child of his environment."
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Shinichi Suzuki
"Man is a child of his environment."
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"Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible."
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Mark Hopkins
"Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible."
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"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
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Timothy Leary
"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
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"History never looks like history when you are living through it."
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John W. Gardner
"History never looks like history when you are living through it."
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"The road to the sacred leads through the secular."
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
"The road to the sacred leads through the secular."
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"Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion."
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John Comenius
"Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion."
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"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."
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Mary McLeod Bethune
"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."
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"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity."
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Michael Porter
"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity."
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"The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades."
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John P. Kotter
"The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades."
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"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."
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James Baldwin
"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."
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"The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted."
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Vinoba Bhave
"The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted."
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"I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages."
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Christopher Love
"I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages."
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"Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart."
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Shinichi Suzuki
"Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart."
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"Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done."
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Benjamin E. Mays
"Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done."
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"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
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Robert M. Hutchins
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
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"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."
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Carol P. Christ
"Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body."
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"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."
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John W. Gardner
"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."
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"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed."
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Booker T. Washington
"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed."
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"It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do."
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Kingman Brewster, Jr.
"It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do."
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"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
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"The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance."
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John Rawls
"The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance."
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"Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different."
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Michael Porter
"Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different."
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"How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is."
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Wilhelm von Humboldt
"How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is."
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"When love is deep, much can be accomplished."
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Shinichi Suzuki
"When love is deep, much can be accomplished."
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"Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now."
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Stephen M. Walt
"Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now."
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"The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive."
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James Lipton
"The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive."
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"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
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Paulo Freire
"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
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"The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad."
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Stephen Cohen
"The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad."
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"Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers."
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Howard Thurman
"Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers."
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"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
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Booker T. Washington
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
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"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."
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Horace Mann
"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."
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"It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story."
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James Baldwin
"It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story."
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"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
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Robert Anthony
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
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"Think for yourself and question authority."
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Timothy Leary
"Think for yourself and question authority."
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"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
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Benjamin E. Mays
"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
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"Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family."
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Vartan Gregorian
"Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family."
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"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation."
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Robert M. Hutchins
"A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation."
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"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
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Horace Mann
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."
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"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
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Robert M. Hutchins
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
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"We cannot fight new wars with old weapons."
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Vinoba Bhave
"We cannot fight new wars with old weapons."
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