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The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.


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BILL FRIST Lovely is a lovely word that should be used more often.
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MATTHEW ARNOLD Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
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HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD No child's dream should be limited by the quality, or lack thereof, of the education they receiv...
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GEORGE ARNOLD I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
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C LIONG A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... My perception was that video games were really the most worthless things that a child does.
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EMMA GOLDMAN The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
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JOSEPH PULITZER Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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JOHN KATZMAN I'm glad that's one of the things I chose to do as a man - to be a father to my child.
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EDWARD JAMES OLMOS I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored ...
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PLATO Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
PLATO It is right to give every man his due.
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PLATO I would fain grow old learning many things.
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PLATO The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
PLATO He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
PLATO As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
PLATO We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
PLATO Democracy passes into despotism.
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PLATO Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
PLATO Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
PLATO Philosophy begins in wonder.
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PLATO Courage is a kind of salvation.
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PLATO Love is a serious mental disease.
PLATO This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
PLATO Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
PLATO Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
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PLATO When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
PLATO All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
PLATO Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
PLATO Life must be lived as play.
PLATO Necessity... the mother of invention.
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PLATO Man is a being in search of meaning.
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PLATO Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
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PLATO This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
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PLATO Even the gods love jokes
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