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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. – Tryon Edwards

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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spiders web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. – Tryon Edwards

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so. – Tryon Edwards

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Ive been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. – Loni Anderson

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You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs. – Bernie Sanders

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I had the most reversed education possible. Every parent wants their son to be a businessman, respectable – me, it was the opposite. When I had an artist career my mum was like, Oh finally, Im proud of you! – David Guetta

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The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions. – Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, 1871

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Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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