"Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both."

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Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers

Abraham Flexner

#Education Quotes #Peace Quotes #War Quotes

“It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.”
“My most basic credo is: I never said freedom was cheap. And it ain't. Never will be. It's been the highest priced and most precious commodity in my life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sonny Barger from Nov 05, 2015
“I've never had a very great public life.”
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
“Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral.”

Source : Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.175
“A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.”
“If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective.”
“You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.”

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