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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit


Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Saint Teresa of Avila


I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Oscar Wilde


Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

James Arthur Baldwin


Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck -- but, most of all, endurance.

D. H. Lawrence


I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

George Orwell


Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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Northwestern Journalism Dean On Hot Seat Over Quotes (NBC 5 Chicago)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:15:23 GMT
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