“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.”
― George Washington Carver
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It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers
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I've experienced this a handful of times in my life, and the quote is right: there's no feeling quite like it. You feel completely vindicated. #books #quotes @bookstodon
I couldn't sleep, so I got up at 2:45am.
Tea in hand, I turned to reading, and found this lovely quote.
This should be everyone's goal.
Imagine a world made a little bit better by each person's individual acts of goodness. That's the kind of world worth fighting for. That's the kind of love—the kind of hope—we all need. 
I feel...an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may...reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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“I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.”
— Sigmund Freud
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q4td.blogspot.comQuote for the Day“I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.” — Sigmund Freud
It was such a relief to be right, even though you knew you'd only got there by trying every possible way to be wrong. (Feet of Clay)
"I would like to say that it is a very great pleasure, honour and privilege for me to open this bridge, but I can't because my lying circuits are all out of commission."—Marvin
A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Nevertheless, the fact remains that exactly as true patriots should be especially jealous of any appeal to what is base under the guise of patriotism, so men who strive for honesty, and for the cleansing of what is corrupt in the dark places of our politics, should emphatically disassociate themselves from the men whose antics throw discredit upon the reforms they profess to advocate.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1900-06), “Latitude and Longitude Among Reformers,” The Century Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 2
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Students should be given fewer "answers" and more "tools" -- tools for self-teaching and for synthesizing, framing, and revising knowledge.
-- G. Octo Barnett
“𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗’𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚘 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚋𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝.”
― 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘔. 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘸
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”
― Frederick Douglass
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
― Frederick Douglass
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self-Reliance)
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“Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.”
– Judy Blume
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"Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place."
“If thought corrupts #language, language can also corrupt thought.”
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
— Isaac Asimov
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q4td.blogspot.comQuote for the Day“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that ...