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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 highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Success
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 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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There is no wealth but life.
Life and Living
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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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Honesty
John Ruskin

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What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
Quality
John Ruskin

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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
Architecture
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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Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Bertrand Russell

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Opinions
Bertrand Russell

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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
Experts
Bertrand Russell

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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Hope
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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Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
Happiness
Bertrand Russell

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I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Writers and Writing
Bertrand Russell

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Anger
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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun