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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."

By H. L. Mencken

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"Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best."

By Unknown

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"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best."

By Unknown

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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."

By Thomas Carlyle

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"Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character."

By Oscar Levant

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"Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them."

By Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech, October 3, 1952

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"USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population."

By David Letterman

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"Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought."

By Henry C. Rogers

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"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance."

By Abraham Lincoln

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"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom."

By Marilyn Ferguson

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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."

By H. L. Mencken

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"Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited."

By Helen Luke

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"Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated."

By Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."

By Orison Swett Marden

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"Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof."

By Dogen Zenji

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"Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years."

By Graham Greene

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"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both"

By H.L. Mencken

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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."

By H.L. Mencken

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"University President Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment Now the Department of Mathematics"

By Isaac Asimov

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"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's sk"

By Lyndon B. Johnson

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