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Tryon Edwards Quotes

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Tryon Edwards

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: theologian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 7, 1809 - January 4, 1894

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Education Great Discipline Mind End

The peacock has become one of my regular sources of inspiration from nature.

Matthew Williamson

Nature Become Inspiration Peacock

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

Angelo Scola

Life Moral Crime Always Taking

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

Jean M. Auel

Woman People Hair Eye Story Skin

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

Spike Jonze

Try Invisible Always Aspire Film

The Sudanese army has retaken some towns. The people there are all living in caves because the Sudanese army is shelling their villages.

Tom Catena

People Army Living Because Villages

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

Martin O'Malley

Morning Camera You House Newspaper

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

Mitch McConnell

Success Security Country Know Social

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

Dexter Gordon

Yourself You Know Kind Understand

So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

Clare Short

War Legal Advice Public Domain Said

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American President for Africa. But it's empirically so.

Bob Geldof

Today American Political Done Africa

I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.

Antonya Nelson

People Story Think Short Capable

To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.

Sharon Stone

Happy People Flowers Me Be Happy Go