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Lecturer Inspirational Quotes (1887)

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A jump from the sixth floor is definitely more harmful than taking heroin, yet we don't forbid building sixth floors.
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
Joseph Campbell
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A rejection of the way a woman speaks is often a way of blaming or dismissing her without dealing with the content of what she is saying.
Gloria Steinem
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Herman Melville
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But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.
Herman Melville
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First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.
Maria Montessori
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For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
Emma Goldman
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Sacred are the lips from which has issued only truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.
Allen Klein
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Feminism isn't whatever you want it to be.
Gloria Steinem
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A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.
Herman Melville
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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
Herman Melville
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Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.
Herman Melville
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The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.
Emma Goldman
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Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.
Gloria Steinem
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Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.
Olavo de Carvalho
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Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.
Maria Montessori
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Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.
Spencer Johnson
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Adults have not understood children or adolescents and they are, as a consequence, in continual conflict with them.
Maria Montessori
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I wasn't ever unable to function, but I did realize at some point that I had built a wall between myself and my childhood by saying, I'm so glad that's over. Nothing can ever be as bad again, without understanding that my childhood was still very much with me.
Gloria Steinem
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Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
Joseph Campbell
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Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.
Roddy Doyle
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The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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