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I don't like people much, and I like doctors even less.

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Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century

But, as has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of confusion, and my experience teaches me that it is better to hold a well-understood and intelligible opinion, even if it should turn o...

Principles Of General Physiology

The rules for raising children had gone out with her parents generation of daughters who had lived as Lucy had, in patient silence, acting by standards which had lasted generations, waiting to grow up to make their decisions, following the patterns o...

You Are the Love of My Life

I've had opportunities before to run for office - the Republicans recruited me when I was surgeon general, to run for Congress, to run against Gov. Napolitano. But I didn't feel it was my calling... I felt, 'Well, I'm flattered, but I really would ra...

Richard Carmona

The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women — of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the countless women who came before me and were not...

Rebecca Solnit

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office h...

Joe Biden

General Hummel: Hey, girls? You havin' a good time? Little Girl: Yeah. General Hummel: Will you do something for me? It's really - It's really important. I need you to tell your teacher that you need to get back on the boat and go home right now.

The Rock

That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere ...

Jay-Z

I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the...

William Gibson

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Arthur Wellesley

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

Kim Weston

Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.

Cease and Desist

Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd.

Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

Critique of Pure Reason

I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust—the perfumes of knowledge.

Drink Deep

A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown.

The Hand of Ethelberta

Education is the use of knowledge which brings about development and impact many lives

Beautiful Quotes

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Audrey Hepburn

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Ludwig van Beethoven

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey