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When you want to attract people to buy a product, they must have a certain level of likeness for the product.
A.Y Makun
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We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.
Walter Dean Myers
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When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficulties by peaceful means, then they can be attracted to violence and to separatism.
Condoleezza Rice
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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas Sowell
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It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
Ben Carson
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Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections.
Condoleezza Rice
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
Thomas Sowell
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My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did.
Condoleezza Rice
Alabama
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Thomas Sowell
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I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.
Condoleezza Rice
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Thomas Sowell
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We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
Walter Dean Myers
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Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
Thomas Sowell
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
Walter Dean Myers
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke
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The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas Sowell
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Because
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke
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If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
Walter Dean Myers
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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
Thomas Sowell
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Edmund Burke
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
Walter Dean Myers
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
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Bad Men
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
Thomas Sowell
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Edmund Burke
Between
In My Opinion
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke
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Indifference
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Edmund Burke
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.
Walter Dean Myers
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
Walter Dean Myers
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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell
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I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.
Walter Dean Myers
Being
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Thomas Sowell
Blatant
Could
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General
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke
All Things
Foundation
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund Burke
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None
For
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke
Agreement
Little
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
Ben Jonson
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Thomas Sowell
Basic
Best
Decide
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They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
Ben Jonson
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Edmund Burke
Founded
Frugality
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'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Ben Jonson
Begin
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Disease
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
Walter Dean Myers
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
Fame
Great
Great Souls
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Ben Jonson
Art
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
Ben Jonson
Language
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The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.
Walter Dean Myers
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