The real purpose

The real purpose
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
  

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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.
Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.
You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.
Old fools are more foolish than you ones.
Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.
Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.
Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.
A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.
In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.