We don’t get to choose how we break but we get to choose how we rebuild.
ASHLEY PRZYWOLSKIThe most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind….
More Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Quotes
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Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.
ABDULLAH YUSUF ALI -
This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.
ADAM WEISHAUPT -
Faith enables many of us to endure life’s difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.
SAM HARRIS -
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
BRENDAN BEHAN -
I think that the feeling that people have for each other is beyond definition, more than words.
MARIYA FEDULOVA -
I don’t think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow.
BOB GOFF -
I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they’re unique.
BEN STEIN -
It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life.
BILL O'REILLY -
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT -
It went from Bob Newhart to Flip Wilson to Bill Cosby to Richard Pryor to George Carlin to Cheech and Chong. I had all these records.
RON WHITE -
Sand and wind are meant to be together.
AH KEN -
A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
TONI MORRISON -
Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
BILL CRAWFORD -
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
PLINY THE ELDER -
Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
RAMANA MAHARSHI