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Quote by Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. – Joseph Addison

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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. – Joseph Addison

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Death
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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. – Joseph Addison

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Serenity
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. – Joseph Addison

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. – William Butler Yeats

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I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers salaries. Its the only industry where you never see any productivity increases. – Peter Brimelow

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So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think its a better education overall. – Charles Schumer

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My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education. – Renee Fleming

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Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obamas advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of Americas AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obamas watch, and theres no one left to blame. – John Sununu

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That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and its pure, it means that they do too. – Sean Penn

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