The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?"Sydney J. Harris
The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.
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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon ones resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.
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Men may be divided almost any way we please, but I have found the most useful distinction to be made between those who devote their lives to conjugating the verb 'to be,' and those who spend their lives conjugating the verb 'to have.'
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Filth is always a sign of weakness in the mouth of the user and in the mind of the writer.
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