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"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder." Joseph Wood Krutch Submitted by Quonation |Category: Inspirational Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food,...

"There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory." Josh Billings Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense." Josh Billings Submitted by Quonation |Category: Intelligence Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "As a general thing, when a woman...

"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants." John W. Gardner Submitted by Quonation |Category: Education Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "We are all faced with...

"The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on." Josiah Gilbert Holland Submitted by Quonation |Category: Soul Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power." Josiah Gilbert Holland Submitted by Quonation |Category: General Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "Responsibility walks...

"What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and...

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for his reputation if he didn't." Jules Renard Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart." Jules Renard Submitted by Quonation |Category: Socialism Vote...

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse.... A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice;...

"Cato, I grudge you your death, as you would have grudged me the preservation of your life." Julius Caesar Submitted by Quonation |Category: History Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "Experience is the teacher of all things." Julius Caesar Submitted by Quonation |Category: Experience Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "As a result...

"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." John Steinbeck Submitted by Quonation |Category: Literature Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people...

"The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public." Junius Submitted by Quonation |Category: Justice Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions." Junius Submitted by Quonation |Category: Integrity Vote Up 0 Vote Down Favorite "Oppression...