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"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." »John Adams
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"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology." »Wystan Hugh Auden
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"In none of the cases examined in this study was the existence of these gun registration records of any assistance in detecting a crime and no one questioned during the course of this study could offer any evidence to establish the value of the system of registering weapons." »Colin Greenwood
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"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself." »Pierre Charron
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"Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom." »John A. Rassias
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"To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all." »Sir William Osler
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"Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world." »Samuel Johnson
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"Excessive literary production is a social offense." »George Eliot, a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans
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"Etymology, n.:
Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow."" »Mike Kellen
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"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth." »Mark Twain
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"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook." »Joseph Conrad
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"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." »Anais Nin
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"I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked." »Harold Bloom
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"Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers." »Leo C. Rosten
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"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority--literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political." »Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)
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"Is a preface exquisitely written? No literary morsel is more delicious. Is the author inveterately dull? It is a kind of preparatory information, which may be very useful. It argues a deficiency of taste to turn over an elaborate preface unread: for it is the attar of the author?s roses, every drop distilled at an immense cost. It is the reason of the reasoning, and the folly of the foolish." »Isaac D?Israeli
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"Generally we study too much and think too little." »Hary Latham Doherty
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"study men, not historians." »Harry S Truman
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"The true science and study of man is man." »Pierre Charron
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"The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance." »Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics." »Francis Bacon
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"I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come." »Abraham Lincoln
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"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." »Sir Richard Francis Burton
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"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself" »Sir Richard F. Burton
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"Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create." »Ed Parker, Grandmaster, American Kenpo.
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"“The more I study, the more I learn and absorb, the more I realize how truly little I know."" »Steve Maraboli
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"If a man's judgement be impaired, let him study philosophy" »Lot Chakonza
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"study the past if you would define the future." »Confucius
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"Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently." »Anonymous
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"A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study." »Chinese Proverb
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