Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius
Recitation: by Male by Female
Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.
Jim Jeffords
EducationMeLookingI CanAhead
Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.
Jeremy Jordan
MoneyStruggleSchoolPeopleThink
Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.
Max Stirner
StrengthManSpiritBeliefGhosts
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Andre Gide
BeautifulMadnessReasonInspired
She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
Sri Aurobindo
PowerGreatIntelligenceManNow
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates
WisdomKnowledgeYouKnowTrue
I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.
Simon Cowell
DayGymYearsBeenHundredCouple
A lot of my family is from Texas, stuff like that, so I was always in Texas, and when you grow up in Texas, around Texas, you want to go to the biggest Texas school, and UT was that.
Trae Young
FamilySchoolTexasGrowYouWant
At the end of the day, Johnny Cash was a poet.
Rodney Crowell
DayEnd Of The DayEndCashPoet
The first day that I get to Fort Myers, there was a newspaper down there. The newspaper said, 'Puerto Rican hot dog arrives in town.'
Roberto Clemente
DogDayDownSaidNewspaperHot
Scientists habitually moan that the public doesn't understand them. But they complain too much: public ignorance isn't peculiar to science. It's sad if some citizens can't tell a proton from a protein. But it's equally sad if they're ignorant of their nation's history, can't speak a second language, or can't find Venezuela or Syria on a map.
Martin Rees
SadScienceHistoryIgnoranceSpeak
Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once.
Diane Cilento
ChildrenBedBecauseOnceParental
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