The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

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So little time and so little to do.

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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English — up to fifty words used in correct context — no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.

—Aldous Huxley

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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

—Horace Walpole

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To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

—George Santayana

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