2.Quotes On Colleges:Drugs:Intellectuals:Optimism:Christians-Part 2

"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.." -Ralph Waldo Emerson-

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"We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.".-Benjamin Franklin-

"It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.".-Henry David Thoreau-

"Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.".-Camille Paglia

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"A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals.".-Corbett Ronnie-

"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.".-Bill Cosby-

"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.".-Voltaire-

"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.".-Oscar Wilde-

"There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher;that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.".-Charles Baudelaire-

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"Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.".-Norman Cousins-

"To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals - and critics of the Women's Movement.".-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison-

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror.".-Oscar Wilde-

"The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.".-Henry Ward Beecher-

"I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.".-William B. Yeats-

"History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.".-Hubert H. Humphrey-

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"When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.".-Barbara de Angelis-

"Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.".-Fred A. Allen-

"Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.".-Bill Russell-

"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.".-Herbert Clark Hoover-

"High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.".-Jack Kinder-

"No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.".-Phillips Brooks-

"The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.".-Bill Murray-

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.".-Donald Trump-

"After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.".-Henry Louis Mencken-

"There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.".-Chief Seattle-

"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.".-Ben Stein-

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"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.".-Francis Bacon-

"Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.".-Camille Paglia-

"The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.".-Felix Frankfurter-

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"Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.".-Charles Haddon Spurgeon-

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