Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.
~ G. K. Chesterton
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It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to the man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Depression is the inability to construct a future.
~ Rollo May
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There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
~ Will Rogers
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There, where trees flower, and springs flow, for there is nothing again.
~ T.S. Eliot
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I consider that I have many responsibilities, but none greater than this: to last, as Hemingway says, and get my work done. I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
~ James Baldwin
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Educational supply is concentrated in the North, but a disproportionate share of the growth in the college-ready student population is in the South.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.
~ Thomas Sowell
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