A child is not a

A child is not a
A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.
  

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Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.
In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves
Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.
A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.
Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They
Eyes are more accurate witness than ears