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educational keys doors
A very little key will open a very heavy door. Charles Dickens
education teaching brain
Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it. Charles Caleb Colton
education book men
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are. Charles Caleb Colton
education mind armor
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind. Charles Caleb Colton
education teaching knowledge
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Charles Caleb Colton
education prayer men
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate. Charles Stanley
educational clothes giving
Our educational system in its entirety does nothing to give us any kind of material competence. In other words, we don't learn how to cook, how to make clothes, how to build houses, how to make love, or to do any of the absolutely fundamental things of life. Alan Watts
education learning buddhism
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. Alan Watts
education country government
The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country. Al Sharpton
lying hype people
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception. Charles Dudley Warner
lying war destiny
Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world. Charles de Gaulle
lying light choices
Inside us lies every possibility that is available to a sentient being. Every darkness, every light. It is the choices we make that decide who or what we will be. Charles de Lint
lying one-day rabbits
Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place. Charles de Lint
lying reflection world
What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves. Charles de Lint
lying skins way
Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we're good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who's not living in our skin to point out how things really are. Charles de Lint
lying night two
Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things. Charles de Lint
lying twilight eye
I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie and stranger things still that we spy only when we're not really paying attention to them, whispers and flickering shadows, here one moment, gone the instant we turn our heads for a closer look. But I couldn't always find them. And when I did, for a long time I thought they were only this excess of imagination that I carry around inside me, that somehow it was leaking out of me into the world. Charles de Lint
lying moving our-world
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive. That is a lie. All they require is our recognition. Charles de Lint
escaping who-i-am play
Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play. Alan Rickman
escaping way coping
I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening. Al Pacino
escaping political desire
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burdens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord. Edward Gibbon
escaping careers luck
There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident. Edmond H. Fischer
escaping singing world
Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth. Edith Piaf
escaping useless prison
Useless pursuits and conversations always about the same things absorb the better part of one's time, the better part of one's strength, and in the end there is left a life grovelling and curtailed, worthless and trivial, and there is no escaping or getting away from it—just as though one were in a madhouse or prison. Anton Chekhov
escaping taxation facts
There is no escaping the fact that when the taxation of large incomes is excessive, they tend to disappear. Calvin Coolidge
escaping important firsts
The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate. Alan Dershowitz
escaping naked bees
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him! Bram Stoker