"There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by a duty to mankind to safeguard the trust of civilization."

-- Oscar Straus

#Country Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Patriotism Quotes

“A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.”
“When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.”
“Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way”
“I want to say a very sincere thank you for this welcome home - it is a wonderful welcome home. It is the place to where I return and where I will always return because it is of Galway that I am.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences.”

Source : John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.231, Indiana University Press
“I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific'.”
“I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first kiss.”
“We live thinking we will never die, We die thinking we have never lived”

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