The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
Recitation: by Male by Female
I don't see any state that Democrats have won five out of six times, or six out of six times, that Trump, you know, at face value, poses a threat in. I just don't see it.
Joel Benenson
ValueFaceYouKnowSeeOut
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
John Masefield
CommunityManPoetryBecomePrinting
Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.
Michael Isikoff
InformationTellReportersDidSays
Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.
Amy Bloom
TrainingYouListenShut UpUpShut
If we want politics to be the kind of arena where you're attracting and encouraging really competent people who do a job well because that's what they're supposed to do, then you have to pay them a salary that's commensurate with that.
Stephen J. Dubner
PoliticsJobPeopleYouWantKind
I get extra time to take the test because of my ADD. Everybody's brains works differently and I just need longer for things to register.
Mary-Kate Olsen
TimeTestNeedThingsTakeBrains
When kids like Steven Spielberg were eight and nine and 10, they had little cameras, and that's all they wanted to do. When I was 10, I was in my attic pretending to host my own variety show. Spielberg wasn't. That's why he's a film director, and I'm doing what I'm doing.
Martin Short
DoingWhyMy OwnDirectorPretending
As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers.
Don Yaeger
WinterSportsMenTeamWinWorld
The only musicals I've really worked on in New York are new musicals, and I like the idea that my job as an actor is also that of a detective, archaeologist, and mystery solver.
Phillipa Soo
JobNew YorkMysteryNewActorIdea
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
Thomas de Quincey
SundayEarthLondonWetAfternoon
I think social issues are always part of a presidential campaign.
Tim Ryan
ThinkAlwaysSocialSocial Issues
When it comes to policies of central bankers, the biggest systemic risk we have... are those policies.
Rick Santelli
RiskCentralThoseBankersPolicies
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