Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
—Joseph Stalin, 1934
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
—André Gide, 1897As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverbAs bad a dresser as I am, anything beats being judged by my character.
—David Sedaris, 1997Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
—E.B. White, 1944Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1928There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1651Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
—George Herbert, 1640Men are what their mothers made them.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
—Anthony Trollope, 1862Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
—Lawrence Durrell, 1957The play is the tragedy “Man,” And its hero the conqueror worm.
—Edgar Allan Poe, 1843