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“How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?”
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“If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are sober; he will leave the room if you are drunk. If you make a fool of yourself in front a dog, he will make a fool of himself, too.”
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“All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.”
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“I can't possibly get into your knickers.”
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“The Bible teaches that we are to love people and use money, but we often get that reversed and you start loving money and using people to get more money. Money is simply a tool to be used for good.”
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“In the year 1456 ... a Comet was seen passing Retrograde between the Earth and the sun... Hence I dare venture to foretell, that it will return again in the year 1758.”
Source : Edmond Halley (1706). “Miscellanea Curiosa: Being a Collection of Some of the Principal Phaenomena in Nature, Accounted for by the Greatest Philosophers of this Age : Together with Several Discourses Read Before the Royal Society, for the Advancement of Physical and Mathematical Knowledge”, p.342
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“To focus on discipline is to ignore the real problem: We will never be able to get students (or anyone else) to be in good order if, day after day, we try to force them to do what they do not find satisfying.”
Source : William Glasser, M.D. (2010). “Choice Theory in the Classroom”, p.13, Harper Collins
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“The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.”
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“I wrote my first book when I was 22 years old. I have a way with words and I love to write. I can write without getting writers block so I knew, it was a gift.”
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“Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.”
