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Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Peter Cochrane

For want of self - Restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross - Grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self - Control.

Smiles

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.

Richard Leide

To live without loving is not really to live.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire

Vivere est cogitare. To think is to live.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Marian Wright Edelman

Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.

Alan Holbrook

This world we live in is but thickened light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Society is like the air; necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.

George Santayana

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

Thomas Crum

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

David Russell

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas H. Everett

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Mark Twain

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Carl Sagan

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Joseph Addison

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Socrates

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

Henry Louis Mencken

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Hugh Prathe

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Kahlil Gibran

Whether they live in an igloo or a grass shack or a mud hut, people around the world all want the same thing a better house.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Bessie A. Stanley

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

Edward Kennedy

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Samuel Johnson, Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.

Henry Mille

He that lives on hope will die fasting.

American Prove

Underpromise overdeliver.

Tom Peters

The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.

Rollo May

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Alice Thomas Ellis

This is how God showed His love among us He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.

1 John 49 NIV Bible

If you ask me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Emile Zola

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

Continental people have sex - Lives the English have hot - water bottles.

George Mikes

We live by encouragement and die without it - - Slowly, sadly, angrily.

Celeste Holm

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe