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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
Education
John Ruskin

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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
Vulgarity
John Ruskin

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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
Imagination
John Ruskin

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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.
Color
John Ruskin

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The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
Language
John Ruskin

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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
Nature
John Ruskin

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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
Nations
John Ruskin

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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
Science and Scientists
John Ruskin

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They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
Mediocrity
John Ruskin

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
Change
John Ruskin

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When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.
Egotism
John Ruskin

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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Ability
John Ruskin

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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
Gambling
John Ruskin

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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
Books - Reading
John Ruskin

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A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Illusion
Bertrand Russell

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All human activity is prompted by desire.
Desire
Bertrand Russell

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Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Happiness
Bertrand Russell

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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
Happiness
Bertrand Russell

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Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
Fools and Foolishness
Bertrand Russell

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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Freedom
Bertrand Russell

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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Life and Living
Bertrand Russell

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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
Thoughts and Thinking
Bertrand Russell

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Ignorance
Bertrand Russell

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Most people would rather die than think: many do.
Death and Dying
Bertrand Russell

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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
Animals
Bertrand Russell

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun