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"Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter." »Henry Anatole Grunwald
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"Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and the state forever separate." »Ulysses S. Grant
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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." »Oscar Levant
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"No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?" »Carl L. Becker
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"There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts." »Christine Lavin
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"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops." »Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness (1971)
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"It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous." »Andy Warhol
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"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller
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"You should not live one way in private, another in public." »Publilius Syrus
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"God enters by a private door into every individual." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Praise in public criticize in private." »Vince Lombardi
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"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"Justice: To seek it, one must be willing to give up the right to privacy, as nothing more private will become more public." »Brian K. Blackden, 1996
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"Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view." »Anonymous
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"Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty." »Leon Wieseltier
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"Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again." »Frank Moore Colby
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"Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view." »Unknown
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"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself." »Mark Twain
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"Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing." »Charles Krauthammer
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"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them." »Penn Jillette
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"Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one." »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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"The most private essence of a person's fiber can only be measured by deed; not through written tests." »Jonar Nader
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"So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill their.s" »Elbert Hubbard
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"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." »Elvis Presley
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"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college." »Lillian Smith
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"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line." »Lucille Ball
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"Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere." »G. K. Chesterton
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