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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain...
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Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
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I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
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There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and...
Quote #19824
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
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The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals...
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My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the...
Quote #14635
Education is not received. It is achieved.
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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
Quote #25988
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the...