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True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
Michel de Montaigne
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From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.


Thomas Campion
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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The brave love mercy, and delight to save.


John Gay
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True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.
John Green
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One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.


Robert Fortune
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I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.
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I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.
Jason Ritter
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
Nora Roberts
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.


E. W. Howe
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That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.
Marian McPartland
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True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.
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Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.


Yoshihiko Noda
I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like flowers.
Miranda Cosgrove
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If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
Billy Collins
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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A really important point for me is that I don't use any brand or corporate sponsors. So I have no responsibility to anyone but myself and the subjects.
JR
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I loved England's gentility and its civility. I'm from the Bronx, with a Bronx accent. I love the beauty of its language, the ways it's spoken. I love the green grass of England and the flowers.
Sid Bernstein