Quotes '11-'12

The forces in a capitalist society if left unchecked tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

- Robert Hutchins

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No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.

- Raymond Holliwell

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As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

- Woody Allen

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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

—George Orwell

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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
— Gandhiabout

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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
— Robert Browning

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Be more. Do less. The Divine achieves without toil, without exertion.
— Philip Arnold

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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson