"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."
-Edward Gibbon
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"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.“
-Edward Gibbon
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"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself."
-Edward Gibbon
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
-Edward Gibbon
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"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect."
-Edward Gibbon
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"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."
-Edward Gibbon
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"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
-Edward Gibbon
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-Fabrice Luchini
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"For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play."
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"Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter."
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"I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government."
-Lloyd Bentsen
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