I've got this thing with skating and school - to see how much I can accomplish.

Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.

I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

People who have gone through trauma need help with logistics in the short term.

Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.

The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.

By 2030, just a small percentage of the global population will live in poverty.

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

Fine. Since the tea is not forthcoming, let's have a philosophical conversation.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

The Church has its problems, but the older I get, the more comfort I find there.

Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.

I mean, this is a joke, to try to implicate me as like a friend of the Russians.

Regime change is not within that purview. And that has been an all-out disaster.

The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives.

The best instruction is that which uses the least words sufficient for the task.

Order is not goodness; but perhaps it is the indispensable road to arrive at it.

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

If there had been no fear of failure, neither would there be any joy in success.

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

When asked, "Why do you always wear black?", he said, "I am mourning for my life.

If there is a gun hanging on the wall in the first act, it must fire in the last.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

Faith is a capacity of the spirit. It is like talent: you have to be born with it

There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

This may be news to Big Money politicians, but they actually don't own our votes.

We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

Every great cause is born from repeated failures and from imperfect achievements.

The child has a mind able to absorb knowledge. He has the power to teach himself.

Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.

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