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150 Academic Quotes

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

Insanity Only sane Reaction Society
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The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Stupid Forgive Nor forget Naive
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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

People That person Found himself The self
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Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

Every act Conscious learning Requires Willingness
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Labeling a child as mentally ill is stigmatization, not diagnosis. Giving a child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.

Labeling A child Mentally ill Stigmatization
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In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Animal kingdom The rule Eat Be eaten
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Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.

Masturbation Primary Sexual activity Mankind
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The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

The proverb Not bite Feeds you Prevents
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Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Religion Strong Science weak Mistook magic
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If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

Breaks The law Not punished Obey
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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Education Movement Darkness Light
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Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Error Enemy Truth Treatment
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Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

Commitment Word Invented Motives
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I have no desire ... to preach a high-minded and merely edifying version of love

Desire Preach Edifyng Love
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Failure.Books Vision Belief
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There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

Real Education Respond Display
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One has to have the experience of really believing before one can have the thrill of liberation.

Experience Believing Thril Liberation
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The faith in God and the belief in miracles are closer to the truth than any scientific explanation

Faith God Belief Miracles
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Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason.

Openness Virtue Good Reason
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Librally Educated Resist Answers
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There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

Rule Think Life Second
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As I walked by myself And talked to myself, Myself said unto me, Look to thyself, Take care of thyself, For nobody cares for thee.

Walked Myself Thyself Care
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As we leave the tribal culture of childhood behind, we lose contact with instinctive joy in self-expression: with the creative imagination, spontaneous emotion, and the ability to see the world as full of wonders.

Childhood Joy World Wonders
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Sticks and stones may break my bones; But names will never hurt me When I die, then you'll cry for the names you called me.

Sticks Stones Names Cry
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We say something every morning when we decide how to dress.

We Say Morning Decide
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In a sense much great literature is subversive, since its very existence implies that what matters is art, imagination, and truth. In what we call the real world, on the other hand, what usually counts is money, power, and public success.

Sense Art Imagination Truth
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We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

Lie Langauge Dress Truth
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Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

Fashion Speech Privileges Pleasures
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...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.

Write Character Hate Fear
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Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

Real Litrature Travel Surprise
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Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

Wars Victory Defeat Men
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With a pencil and paper, I could revise the world.

Pencil Paper Revise World
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If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.

Survive Life Artist Report
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There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

Odor Explosives Smoke War
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I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.

A feminist I believe Inhabiting contractions Productive
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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

Essential Resist The depiction History
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Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionary life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

Revolution Serious thing Revolutionary life Commits oneself
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The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb.

The process Empowerment Simplistically defined In accordance
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We are never assured of justice without a fight.

Never assured Justice A fight
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I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Hard time Accepting diversity Synonym For justice
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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

The idea Freedom Is inspiring Are free
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We must always attempt to lift as we climb.

Must always Attempt To lift We climb
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

Justice Individual Can't decide Civil rights
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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

When children Attend schools Greater value On discipline
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I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change,I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

No longer Accepting The things Cannot change
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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

We live A society Imposed forgetfulness That depends
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

To act Were possible Radically transform The world
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Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

Great deal Progress Have laws Segregate
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

Never saw An individual Any particular Leadership powers
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Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

Get depressed Sometimes
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