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• If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an apparently unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

  Claire Weekes

  Education, Wall, Thinking

  "Hope and Help for Your Nerves".

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• The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Truth, Practice, Civilization

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “The Standardization of Error”, New York : W.W. Norton

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• I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Law, Differences, Ease

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

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• Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its profounder message: the defining of a new and unique source of truth, and the demand for a thorough revision of ethical premises, for a complete break with the animist tradition, the definitive abandonment of the 'old covenant', the necessity of forging a new one. Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the riches they owe to science, our societies are still trying to live by and to teach systems of values already blasted at the root by science itself.

  Jacques Monod

  Unique, Roots, Trying

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• There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

  Agnes Repplier

  World, Enjoyable

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is the central task of all educators. It is the genius of the student that is the driving force behind all learning. Before educators take on any of the other important issues in learning, they must first have a thorough understanding of what lies at the core of each student's intrinsic motivation to learn, and that motivation originates in each student's genius.

  Thomas Armstrong

  Motivation, Lying, Mean

  Thomas Armstrong (1998). “Awakening Genius in the Classroom”, p.2, ASCD

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• The Social Citizen is the best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior that I have ever read. Betsy Sinclair shows just how strongly we are influenced to express ourselves politically by our family, neighbors, and friends. We are on the verge of a sea change in political science, and this will be one of the most important books we refer to when we describe what happened to the discipline in the twenty-first century.

  James H. Fowler

  Book, Sea, Discipline

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• Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Creativity, Responsibility

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• A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which we cannot impress forcibly enough upon the young chess player. A beginner should avoid Queen's Gambit and French Defence and play open games instead! While he may not win as many games at first, he will in the long run be amply compensated by acquiring a thorough knowledge of the game

  Richard Reti

  Running, Queens, Winning

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• If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.

  Rene Descartes

  Nature, Math, Animal

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• The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Real, Knowledge, Age

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• To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Time, Mean, Differences

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• Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a thorough examination of all its parts, when the aeronaut announced that all was ready. He inquired whether I desired to go up alone, or he should accompany me. My desire, if frankly expressed, would have been not to go up at all; but if I was to go, company was certainly desirable. With an attempt at indifference, I intimated that he might go along.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Distance, Desire, Might

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• Adversity is an effective, thorough and highly personalized teacher.

  Ralph Marston

  Teacher, Adversity, Personalized

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• As far as heroes thorough the years, I’d say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence of mine, George Strait, Lionel Richie.

  Luke Bryan

  Hero, Years, Alabama

  "Luke Bryan Reveals His Memorable Spring Breaks, Best Buds and a Celebrity Apprentice Freakout". Interview with Michael Bialas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

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• There is nothing that this age, from whatever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually, and morally, than thorough ventilation.

  John Ruskin

  Age, Needs, Surveys

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• Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book.

  Clifford Stoll

  Real, Book, Pages

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• Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sacrifice, Pride, Joy

  Blaise Pascal (1849). “Thoughts of Blaise Pascal”, p.89

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• It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding.

  Charles Kingsley

  Simple, Men, Europe

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.59, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I did Google him, you know." "Oh, so you GOOGLED him Oh, well, that changes everything then, doesn't it? What could I possibly worry about now that I know you've conducted such a thorough Internet search?

  Alyson Noel

  Worry, Google, Internet

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• Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.

  George Eliot

  Nature, Eye, Past

  George Eliot (1860). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.312

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• I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Two, Jekyll

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.95, Bibliolis Books

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• My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it — what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Doe, Cost

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.332, Penguin

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• Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Freedom, Enemy, Politics

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

  Phillips Brooks

  Spirit, Righteousness, Bottom

  Phillips Brooks (1838). “Sermons”, p.51

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