Category: writer
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain
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When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.
Eckhart Tolle
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare
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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain
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There are two kinds of experts: academic experts and practical experts. One is not better than the other, but they are very different, and each offers very different value.
Simon Sinek
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We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.
George Eliot
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
Samuel Johnson
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld