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"If you want truly to understand something, try to change it."	Kurt Lewin
"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods? The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses? -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men."	Clive Staples Lewis
"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements."	Clive Staples Lewis
"When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'"	Jerry Lewis
"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me."	Abraham Lincoln
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."	Abraham Lincoln
"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession -- singing, acting, writing, whatever -- requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve."	Sophia Loren
"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."	Max Lucado
"Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal."	Eric Lustbader
"When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor."	Martin Luther
"If you're not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there."	Martin Luther
"Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values."	Helen Merrell Lynd
"Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked."	Niccolo Machiavelli
"Inside each and every one of us is a person that no one knows. A person, should you take the time to look,is waiting to be discovered, Wanting you to take notice. Take a few minutes every day and sit down to chat to this person. Who knows what you may learn?"	Neill MacRae
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."	Horace Mann
"Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire."	Orison Swett Marden
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Aristotle	Athenæus	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
Barbara Burrow	Barbara Charline Jordan	Bernard Edmonds
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Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba	Bob Dylan	Bob Moawad
Bruce Lee	Buonarroti Michelangelo	B. A. Billingsly
Catfish Hunter	Cathleen Douglas	Charles Dickens
Charles Bukowski	Charles Roberts Buxton	Child Age 13
Child Age 15	Christopher Darlington Morley	Claude Adrien Helvetius
Clifton Paul Fadiman	Clint(on) Eastwood, Jr.	Clive Alexander Barnes
Clive Staples Lewis	Confucius	Curtis Grant
Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold	Dale Carnegie	Damien Hess
Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin	Daniel Patrick Moynihan	David Broder
David Havard	David McCord	Dennis McKinsey
Diane Ackerman	Dick Allen	Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Dr. Arthur Kellerman	Dwight David Eisenhower	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
Edmund Burke	Edward Dahlberg	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
Elias Canetti	Ella Fitzgerald	Emma Albani
Epictetus	Epicurus	Erich Fromm
Eric Butterworth	Eric Hoffer	Eric Lustbader
Erma Louise Bombeck	Ernest Miller Hemingway	Eubie
Euripides	Eustace Budgell	Federico Fellni
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Fran Lebowitz	Francis William Bourdillon
Frank Herbert	Frederick Douglass	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
F(rancis) Scott	F. H. Bradley	Galileo Galilei
Gamal Abdel Nasser	Garrison Keillor	Garry Gamble
General Charles De Gaulle	Geoffrey F. Abert	George Eliot
George Dana Boardman	George Foreman	George Frost Kennan
George Gordon Byron	George Stanley McGovern	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
Gerald R. Ford	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Golda Meir
Gurdjieff	Gustave Flaubert	Gérard Depardieu
G. Campbell Morgan	Hal	Harold Howe II
Harold S. Geneen	Helen Adams Keller	Helen Merrell Lynd
Henrik Ibsen	Henry Hitt Crane	Herbert Clark Hoover
Honoré de Balzac	Horace Mann	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky
H. Jackson Browne	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacques Martin Barzun
James Arthur Baldwin	James Lane Allen	Janet Jackson
Jane Austen	Jan Ashford	Jean de La Fontaine
Jean Kerr	Jeff Herman	Jerry Lewis
Jesse Lair	Jiddu Krishnamurti	Joe Moore
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Blofeld	John Burroughs
John B. Gough	John Cleese	John Dryden
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Kenneth Galbraith	Joseph Brooks
Joseph Conrad	Joseph Wood Krutch	Josh Billings
Juvenal	J(ames) William Fulbright	J. Brotherton
J. F. Boyse	Kahlil Gibran	Karen Burka
Kathe Kolliqitz	Kurt Lewin	Lady Nancy Astor
Lawrence Peter Berra	Leonard Bernstein	Leonardo DiCaprio
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lillian Hellman	Lisa Alther
Louis Kronenberger	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Margaret Mead	Margaret Anderson
Maria Montessori	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Mark McGee
Marlon Brando	Marquis de Sade	Martin Luther
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mary Ingraham Bunting	Maxim Gorky
Max Lerner	Max Lucado	Michael Korda
Michael Landon	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Michio Kushi
Mignon McLaughlin	Mike McLaren	Miles Dewey Davis
M. Shawn Covey	Napolean Hill	Neill MacRae
Niccolo Machiavelli	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev	Ogden Nash
Orison Swett Marden	Paul Beatty	Paul Hawken
Percy H. Johnson	Phillip K. Dick	Phillips Brooks
Philo Judaeus	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Ralph Bunche
Raymond Holliwel	Ray Douglas Bradbury	Rena Harmon
Rene Descartes	Richard Lamm	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Richard M. Mathews	Robert Baker	Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert Fritz	Robert F. Bennett	Robert Henri
Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole	Robert Lee Frost	Romare Beardon
Rosabeth Moss Kanter	Rosalynn Smith Carter	Saint Augustine
Sally Field	Samuel Goldwyn	Samuel Butler
Sandra Cisneros	Shakti Gawain	Shirley Mount Hufstedler
Sigmund Freud	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Smiley Blanton	Sophia Loren
Stuti Garg	Sydney J. Harris	Taylor Hanson
Terry Goodkind	Thomas Jefferson	Tibetan Doctrine
T. S. Eliot	Ursula K. LeGuin	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
Vinny Nayak	Virginia Hanson	Walter Frederick Mondale
Warren G. Bennis	William Blake	William Hazlitt
William James	William Adams	William E. Holler
William Seward Burroughs	William Sherman Pene du Bois	Witold Gombrowicz
Woody Allen	Wystan Hugh Auden	Zelda
Zora Neale Hurston	(John) Calvin Coolidge