Orison Swett Marden Quotes
Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
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I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the church.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.
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I think, as a younger actor, you are more open to the experience. And to an extent, you want to go into things blind and energised as if you were 15. Keep that terror.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.
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I have an affection for tangible objects, like books and pages, but people sure do seem to love their Kindles! We're definitely in the middle of a revolution that will determine how people find, read, and experience stories.
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Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
