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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
H. Rap Brown
I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process.
Serj Tankian
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The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
John Burroughs
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
J. K. Rowling
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
B. Carroll Reece
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If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.


Richard Stengel
Trust the young. Young people have a lot to contribute, but generation after generation, those who reach power protect that power rather than teach others how to attain it. I resolved that if I ever became successful, I would trust the young.
Guy Laliberte
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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.


Voltaire
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The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.
Jacob Epstein
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Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.


Ziggy Marley
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A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.


John Dos Passos
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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.


Eric Hoffer
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I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.
Mo Rocca
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
Barbara Lynn
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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.


Voltaire
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Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.


David Mallet
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.


Michel de Montaigne
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When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.


Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.


Italo Calvino
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