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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun t

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. – James Baldwin

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I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. – James Baldwin

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America
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James Baldwin
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. – James Baldwin

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Education
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In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks, and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zara

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A proverb is an exploding atom of wisdom. – Gaston Kaboré

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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. – Tryon Edwards

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Platitude. An idea (a)that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b)that is not true. – H.L. Mencken, “The Jazz Webster,” A Book of Burlesques, 1920

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Because I do think – not just in building AOL – but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated. – Steve Case

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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life… a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year — and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God. – Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson)

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The person who has nothing to brag about but their ancestors is like a potato; the best part of them is underground. – Sir Thomas Overbore

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