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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. – John Lubbock

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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. – John Lubbock

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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summers day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. – John Lubbock

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Ive probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal. – Jacqueline Bisset

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I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others. – Sidney Sheldon

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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. – Wendell Berry

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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. – Josef Albers

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Calumny is only the noise of madmen. – Diogenes

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Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in. – Gunther Grass

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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, thats how I kept track of what was going on. – Barbara Bush

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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. – Voltaire

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