"Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game."

-- V. S. Pritchett

#School Quotes #Eye Quotes #Museums Quotes

“Pure wisdom always directs itself towards God; the purest wisdom is knowledge of God.”

Source : Lew Wallace (2016). “Historical Novels of Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur, The Fair God & The Prince of India (Illustrated): A Tale of the Christ, The Last of the 'Tzins – Story of Aztecs and Conquistadors & The Fall of Constantinople”, p.483, e-artnow
“For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.”

Source : "The Mis-Education of the Negro". Book by Carter G. Woodson, 1933.
“Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.”
“Live and die in Aristotle's works.”
“I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.”
“The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.”
“To deny an entire group of people the ability to be legal couples is anti-American and anti-freedom. As a devoted husband and father of two, I can't imagine the state of Minnesota not recognizing my love for my wife Isabelle. We would welcome and respect the equal rights for gays to experience the same joy and privileges of marriage that we do.”
“I started out coming out of college, I had my realtor's license and I did real estate full time for a number of years.”

Source : "A Tea Party Representative In The Budget Battle". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 9, 2011.

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