William Torrey Harris

Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. ... The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

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Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

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Laurence J. Peter

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

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George Santayana

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

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Niels Bohr

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.

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Terence

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

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Mahatma Gandhi

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.

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Thomas Elliot

It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

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Theodore Epp

Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.

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Dame Edith Sitwell

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

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