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Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
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Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.
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Learned Hand
In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by "learning" we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.
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Martin Heidegger
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
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Howard Crosby
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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Henry B. Adams
Good taste is the flower of good sense.
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A. Poincelot
Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.
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Jack Holland
I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.
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Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign.
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William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
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