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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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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. – Joseph Addison

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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. – Joseph Addison

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One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if its very complex, its very profound. – Dennis Prager

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One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, “Have a nice day.” – Peter Brodie

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Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. – Allan Bloom

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Music – thats been my education. Theres not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. – Billie Joe Armstrong

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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. – Emile M. Cioran

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The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesnt give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does. – Tom Vilsack

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I am sure that, on the one hand, the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx, and that on the other hand, Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds. – Mikhail Bakunin

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