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• When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

  Ariel Gore

  Support, Community, Understanding

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• The courage of the truth is the first condition of philosophic study.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Firsts, Philosopher

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• My daddy's face is a study. Winter moves into it and presides there. His eyes become a cliff of snow threatening to avalanche, his eyebrows bend like black limbs of leafless trees. His skin takes on the pale cheerless yellow of winter sun; for a jaw he has the edges of a snowbound field dotted with stubble; his high forehead is the frozen sweep of the Erie.

  Toni Morrison

  Moving, Eye, Winter

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.45, Random House

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• A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

  Michel de Montaigne

  School, Men

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.352

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• The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

  Aristotle

  Art, Practice, Causes

  Aristotle (1955). “The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

  Aristotle

  Able, Action, Neighbor

  "Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics".

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• The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought, and passion. Publicity is a essential to the one as privacy is to the other.

  John Updike

  Passion, Government, Essence

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• Many ideas have been transformed by adding one crucial adjective-women's bank, women's music, women's studies, women's caucus. That adjective did more than change a phrase. It implied a lot of new content: child care, flexible work hours, new standards of creditworthiness, new symbolism, new lyrics.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Ideas, Symbolism

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• I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Spiritual, Art

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• After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Years, Two

  Russell Baker (1984). “Growing Up”, Signet Book

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• I wish to be
  an inspector of volcanoes.
  I want to study cloud formations
  and memorize the wind
  and learn by heart the habits of
  the ponderosa pine.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Heart, Clouds

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• A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Art, Law, Motorcycle

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• The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Men, Ears, Thousand

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• The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

  Adam C. Engst

  Horse, War, Middle Management

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• Do not think that you are too busy to study the gospel.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Thinking, Busy, Too Busy

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• ... And God, who studies each separate soul,
  
  out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Beautiful, Soul, Religion

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• Life without literary studies is death.

  Seneca the Younger

  Literature

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• For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Real, Men, Occupy Yourself

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

  William Ralph Inge

  Philosophy, History, Mind

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• Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Knowledge, People, Littles

  Thomas a Kempis (1913). “The Imitation of Christ”

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• Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Philosophy, Enough, Should

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• I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Able, Comfort, Female

  Samuel Johnson (1850). “The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale”, p.33

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• Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

  John Milton

  Marriage, Husband, Good Work

  1665 Adamto Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.232-4.

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• This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Education, Children, Learning

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Adults, Patient, Language

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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