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The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done -- men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.


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MANUEL FRAGA IRIBARNE Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of...
ARRIAN Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other
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EVELYN WAUGH Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor de...
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BRANDON SANDERSON Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power
MICHAEL FOOT Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Well education makes you a man who is capable of doing anything systematically.
NISHI DE SILVA There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.
ARISTOTLE Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact
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JAMES BARR Remember who you are. YOU ARE SOURCE! Therefore, there is NOTHING you are not capable of doing, atta...
WILIAM CONSTANTINE The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in t...
ELLEN G. WHITE I not only think that they are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing, and I t...
HARRY BELAFONTE Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars...
ALAN W. WATTS The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
ANDREW CARNEGIE Be jealous of fellow men, but of those men who are pious - your fellow men who are honest, sincere a...
MIZAN CHAUDHURY I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
HENRY FORD He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.
PAT CONROY Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
MARCUS GARVEY Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. S...
G. K. CHESTERTON Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the ...
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DEBBIE MACOMBER What kind of men, then, does our society need? What is the "social character" suited to twentieth ce...
ERICH FROMM The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest ...
THOMAS HUXLEY Look! Don't be deceived by appearances -- men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on ...
WILLIAM BOOTH The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave
EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER To sit home, read one's favorite newspaper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is ea...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money p...
CHARLES FILLMORE Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money pro...
CHARLES FILLMORE Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never...
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DOUGLAS COUPLAND Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
KWAME NKRUMAH Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground ...
ROBERT A. CARO Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
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IRIS NELSON Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be acc...
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WILLIAM BOOTH Men who cry are better men than those who do not cry.
MITTA XININDLU Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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TOM UDALL The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not t...
JOSEPH FRANKLIN RUTHERFORD But they see themselves as women who are interested in men. They are not men interested in other men...
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MAJ JOSIAH BUNTING The only things that need the protection of men are the things of men, not the things of the spirit.
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CLARENCE DARROW Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to s...
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CYRUS H. K CURTIS There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and tho...
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MARTIN BUBER I have always believed that the aristocracy of any country should be the men who have succeeded - th...
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JEAN ROSTAND Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
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JEAN GENET Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
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JEAN ROSTAND We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
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JEAN RACINE Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
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JEAN RACINE It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
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JEAN BAUDRILLARD Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he inve...
JEAN ARP In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need schola...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Saintliness is also a temptation.
JEAN ANOUILH Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines ...
JEAN GENET