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Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desi

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. – Prem Rawat

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The real difference between a mans scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge. – Edward Thorndike

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If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law. – John Boyd Orr

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. – Plato

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Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man. – Jean Jacques Rousseau

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After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of Glee, a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of spirit fingers to chase our cares and woes into somebody elses backyard. – James Wolcott

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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production — only to produce a race of bed-wetters! – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. – Noam Chomsky

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