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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
L. Frank Baum
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L. Frank Baum
Age: 62 †
Born: 1856
Born: May 15
Died: 1919
Died: May 6
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True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.
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We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong.
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Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.
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If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.
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I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
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As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism so let us bear with each other's faults.
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The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.
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One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.
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I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.
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Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.
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It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
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It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.
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You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
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It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.
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I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.
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The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.
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Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.
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