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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. – John Ruskin

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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. – John Ruskin

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Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. – John Ruskin

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A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort. – John Ruskin

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I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements. – Vanessa Carlton

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. – Mark Twain

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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Americas growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesnt seem to have anything to do with Americas growth rate is a brutal work schedule. – Fareed Zakaria

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The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. – George Henry Lewes

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Ones family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days Ill be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people wholl be with me will be my family. – Robert Byrd

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The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to Literature, summer the tissues and blood. – John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers,” 1866

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Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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