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Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.


Robert M. Hutchins


#education #expert #horizons #inflame #intellects

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.


Muhammad Iqbal


#certain #experience #finally #fuller #greater

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded.


Bessie Anderson Stanley


#misattributed-to-emerson #success #widely-misattributed #beauty

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.


Bil Keane


#inspirational #misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt #past #present #widely-misattributed

The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people.


Bill Alexander


#big #big cities #cities #fired #franco

I'm a child of the 70's; influenced mostly by albums that had a wide variety of style.


Kip Winger


#child #had #i #influenced #mostly

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.


Peter Lewis Allen


#america #any #before #disease #early

If it is widely assumed that the new President cannot move forward simply because of a narrow victory, there can easily develop a sense of unease and uncertainty, adversely affecting every sector of American society, our economy and the perception of other nations.


Richard V. Allen


#affecting #american #american society #assumed #because

Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit.


Roland Allen


#christ #commission #did #embracing #followed

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.


David Amram


#circles #open #those #traveled #wide