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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.