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Harry Emerson Fosdick
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.
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Sir William Osler, In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
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L. M. K. Boelter, 1957
Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically.
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Plato
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Sallust
Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.
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Henry Ward Beecher
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a but.
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Terry Goodkind, "Blood of the Fold"
But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
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Mary Kay Utech
Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.
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H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series, 1920
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.
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Wendell Berry
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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