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  • #1
    John Dewey
    “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
    John Dewey

  • #2
    Albert Einstein
    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #3
    C.S. Lewis
    “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #4
    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    Aristotle

  • #6
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    Winston S. Churchill

  • #7
    William Gibson
    “Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
    William Gibson, Neuromancer

  • #8
    William Gibson
    “When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
    William Gibson, Zero History

  • #9
    William Gibson
    “A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.”
    William Gibson, Spook Country

  • #10
    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    Herman Melville

  • #11
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #12
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #13
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #14
    “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
    Nicholas Klein

  • #15
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #16
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #17
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #18
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
    Martin Luther King Jr.

  • #19
    Malcolm X
    “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
    Malcolm X

  • #20
    Abraham Lincoln
    “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #21
    “The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!”
    Edward J. Stieglitz

  • #22
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #23
    Robert G. Ingersoll
    “If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
    Robert Ingersoll

  • #24
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves”
    Abraham Lincoln, Complete Works - Volume XII

  • #25
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #26
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”
    Abraham Lincoln



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