William Butler Yeats
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Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
And say my glory was I had such friends.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
An intellectual hate is the worst.
I have spread my dreams under your feet
Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
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If you can't see the sun at day Thank God, you can see the moon at night It is not the same for the blind.
Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
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