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I really got the best of education , and arts and music and summer camp. I had it great.
I would apply international law and I think we need to be a force for international law.
Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.
Order is one of the needs of life which, when it is satisfied, produces a real happiness
See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.
Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.
The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment
Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.
I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.
The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.
I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.
However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.
I understand that it is not when or how you die but how and if you truly were ever alive.
Hillary [Clinton] is - you know, she's every bit as much scary on war as Donald Trump is.
That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.
Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.
If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.
Love and the hope of it are not things one can learn; they are a part of life's heritage.
This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.
We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.
Everyone feels sad occasionally. A full range of emotions is part of what makes us human.
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.
Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.
Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.
If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.
The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .
Real science is all about critically appraising the evidence for somebody else's position.
As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I became civilized.
Even a small amount of dark chocolate can be exquisitely satisfying if you meditate on it.
Creativity is a great motivator because it mades people interested in what they are doing.
Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
The Green New Deal is about creating economic security for everyone, and doing it quickly.
Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)