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- The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, sc. 2
- Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, sc. 3
- Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. in the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
- Whitney Griswold, Address to students at Phillips Academy, 1952
- We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Tramp Abroad, vol. 2, 1879
- Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expediency.
- William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879), The Purpose of Education, Maroon Tiger, January-February 1947
- Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition.
- Jacques Barzun
- Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- The true trophy hunter is a self-disciplined perfectionist seeking a single animal, the ancient patriarch well past his prime that is often an outcast from his own kind... If successful, he will enshrine the trophy in a place of honor. This is a more noble and fitting end than dying on some lost and lonely ledge where the scavengers will pick his bones, and his magnificent horns will weather away and be lost forever.
- Elgin Gates, Trophy Hunter in Asia
- We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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