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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.


Joseph Addison

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What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON BURNAP It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentl...
JOSEPH ADDISON Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
TOM LEHRER How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
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LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
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BIJOU HUNTER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Life is an audition.
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TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
MURIEL SPARK A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE "The form of sculpture that I practice involves the aesthetic of the human vestige emerging from wit...
DJ GARRITY Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent ...
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GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
AUGUSTE RODIN I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
ALEXANDER POPE It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, ...
C. JOYBELL C. Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
JOHN RUSKIN To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
ZSA ZSA GABOR The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
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GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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MURIEL SPARK To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is ...
MURIEL SPARK Seeing, touching is believing!
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL SEO is DEAD in the eyes of the people who know LESS about it.
J. ORACOY I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what...
BRANDON SANDERSON Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth....
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MURIEL SPARK The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are no...
ELBERT HUBBARD The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are no...
ELBERT HUBBARD How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
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WILLIAM STAFFORD Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul.
SANTOSH KALWAR Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
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CRAIG GROESCHEL [If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the...
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NOW IS GOOD You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
...
JOHN PIPER Love is insanity, apparently.
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JOSEPH ADDISON The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
JOSEPH ADDISON A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed ...
JOSEPH ADDISON O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss,...
JOSEPH ADDISON From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.
JOSEPH ADDISON I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them f...
JOSEPH ADDISON And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r ...
JOSEPH ADDISON It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISON Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
JOSEPH ADDISON