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We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all bu...
DAVID P. GARDNER

We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all bu...
DAVID P. GARDNER We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all bu...
DAVID P GARDNER

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being edu...
DAVID P. GARDNER

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which...
DAVID P. GARDNER I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS Hasten slowly.
AUGUSTUS If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but ...
AUGUSTUS I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
AUGUSTUS Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
AUGUSTUS At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of whi...
AUGUSTUS Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from th...
AUGUSTUS

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - ...
AUGUSTUS HARE

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day send...
AUGUSTUS HARE Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR Hasten slowly
AUGUSTUS CAESAR I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR

I found Rome brick, I left it marble.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS

Hasten slowly.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS Nothing common can seem worthy of you. [Lat., Nihil vulgare te dignum videri potest.]
AUGUSTUS CAESAR

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The diff...
AUGUSTUS HARE

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
AUGUSTUS HARE

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
AUGUSTUS HARE You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses;...
AUGUSTUS HARE Hasten deliberately. [Lat., Festina lente.]
AUGUSTUS CAESAR Make haste slowly.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
AUGUSTUS HARE

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS Practice, the master of all things.
AUGUSTUS OCTAVIUS

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they...
AUGUSTUS HARE

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so ...
AUGUSTUS HARE

As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
AUGUSTUS HARE

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
AUGUSTUS HARE

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our he...
AUGUSTUS HARE

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character,...
AUGUSTUS HARE

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain ...
AUGUSTUS HARE

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things go...
AUGUSTUS HARE

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
AUGUSTUS HARE

Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the ...
AUGUSTUS HARE

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the s...
AUGUSTUS HARE

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
AUGUSTUS HARE

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
AUGUSTUS HARE

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
AUGUSTUS HARE

Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
AUGUSTUS HARE Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my lat...
AUGUSTUS TOPLADY

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
JOHN MAJOR

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any pa...
MAJOR TAYLOR

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is...
MAJOR TAYLOR

I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete...
MAJOR TAYLOR

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my ...
MAJOR TAYLOR

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their col...
MAJOR TAYLOR

I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngst...
MAJOR TAYLOR

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serio...
MAJOR TAYLOR

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phe...
MAJOR TAYLOR

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the suc...
MAJOR TAYLOR

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days...
MAJOR TAYLOR

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean l...
MAJOR TAYLOR

I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing hi...
MAJOR TAYLOR

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
MAJOR TAYLOR

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the ...
MAJOR TAYLOR

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, f...
MAJOR TAYLOR

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Tim...
MAJOR TAYLOR

In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
MAJOR TAYLOR

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.
JOHN MAJOR

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.
JOHN MAJOR

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blund...
JOHN MAJOR

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long ...
JOHN MAJOR

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
JOHN MAJOR

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of v...
JOHN MAJOR

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it kee...
JOHN MAJOR

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans go...
JOHN MAJOR

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere ...
MAJOR TAYLOR

The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy l...
MAJOR OWENS

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were...
JOHN MAJOR

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
JOHN MAJOR

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
MAJOR OWENS

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
JOHN MAJOR

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education faciliti...
MAJOR OWENS My ankle's good; it's ready for tomorrow.
AUDRA MAJOR Adrenaline tends to kill the pain.
AUDRA MAJOR It's always a battle between us and Grants. Last year we let it get away from us. We knew we couldn'...
AUDRA MAJOR It's difficult to focus in a game like this.
AUDRA MAJOR That wasn't really like them to do that. They didn't seem to know which option to take.
AUDRA MAJOR I don't know about my defense, but as a team we defended really well.
AUDRA MAJOR

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean livin...
MAJOR TAYLOR

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for ...
JOHN MAJOR

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate...
JOHN MAJOR

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart cre...
MAJOR OWENS There was gridlock in the South Florida ports. You can't keep building ships and still have enough s...
BRIAN MAJOR Most people go to the Caribbean, but Alaska is also a prime summer market. Europe also attracts some...
BRIAN MAJOR That's a big purchase for us. That's great.
BRIAN MAJOR We could walk out of Town Meeting with an unbalanced budget, which would require additional actions ...
BRIAN MAJOR We see this as a strong trend.
BRIAN MAJOR We're trying to get the word out. Together with the Caribbean Tourism Organization, we're notifying ...
BRIAN MAJOR Around 2000 or so, we began to see more of this type of cruise, focused around bands and music that,...
BRIAN MAJOR

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. ...
JOHN MAJOR

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious...
JOHN MAJOR

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off ...
JOHN MAJOR

High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further econom...
MAJOR OWENS

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.
JOHN MAJOR

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
JOHN MAJOR

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole ...
JOHN MAJOR

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut ...
JOHN MAJOR

Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can...
MAJOR OWENS

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic ge...
JOHN MAJOR

When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
JOHN MAJOR

It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted...
MAJOR OWENS

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.
JOHN MAJOR

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in betw...
JOHN MAJOR

A moratorium around election time to end some of these shenanigans would be appropriate.
JOHN MAJOR

an answer ready to go.
JOHN MAJOR

Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops ...
MAJOR OWENS

The new rules are not necessarily unfair,
JOHN MAJOR

This is David expressing a personal view that many people will agree with but it isn't party policy
JOHN MAJOR

Being in the Northeast, you can't discount the power of Mother Nature and the effect that winters ha...
JOHN MAJOR

It's now up to all of us to turn cease-fire into peace, to turn peace into a lasting settlement and ...
JOHN MAJOR

The events of 25 years ago constituted a terrible tragedy, ... And I believe everyone is determined ...
JOHN MAJOR

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
JOHN MAJOR

At the time, yes.
JOHN MAJOR

Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.
JOHN MAJOR

a man of strong convictions even though they were sometimes unpopular.
JOHN MAJOR

This is exactly the kind of event that we've sort of been talking about and anticipating over the pa...
JOHN MAJOR

The British government fully supports the unequivocal message to Saddam Hussein that repression of i...
JOHN MAJOR We need the white business community at the table.
BARBARA MAJOR If you're talking about building a city, you've got to create a place for everybody. This city doesn...
BARBARA MAJOR I think some people don't understand that an equal number of black and white isn't the same as equit...
BARBARA MAJOR

Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I ...
JOHN MAJOR

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in...
JOHN MAJOR

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that ...
MAJOR OWENS everything -- all sources, all methods, all techniques, all targets.
DAVID MAJOR Her mission in the diplomatic staff of the South African government was to meet people from the U.S....
DAVID MAJOR There's time where you have to have fun, ... The grind of the camp becomes too much for the psyche o...
MAJOR APPLEWHITE When I was a true freshman (at Texas), I had Ricky Williams and he took a hell of a lot of pressure ...
MAJOR APPLEWHITE It makes all the difference in the world,
MAJOR APPLEWHITE The toughest thing about it was I couldn't come to grips with it. I couldn't reason it out in my min...
MAJOR APPLEWHITE When you're that young, you can't come to grips emotionally so you isolate yourself from your teamma...
MAJOR APPLEWHITE You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happ...
MAJOR APPLEWHITE People don't understand I felt I had accomplished all I wanted as a player in football.
MAJOR APPLEWHITE That goes back to not accepting it. What if I said, 'Yeah, you're right, Chris is better, I'm just g...
MAJOR APPLEWHITE

Both the United Kingdom and South Africa are keen to develop the relationship that exists and make i...
JOHN MAJOR

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls...
MAJOR OWENS His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for y...
MAJOR THOMAS The main pulse of this eruption lasted 10 minutes. In 1980, it lasted nine hours. Short duration, no...
JON MAJOR

I didn't come from two rooms in Brixton to 10 Downing Street not to go out and fight with every fibe...
JOHN MAJOR

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
MAJOR OWENS But we do not anticipate any major changes.
BRUCE MAJOR The expansion will enable us to nearly double our production and really establish us as a key player...
BRUCE MAJOR

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and th...
JOHN MAJOR

People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people ...
MAJOR OWENS

There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal ...
MAJOR OWENS Folks seem to confuse what science is all about; it's a methodology of discovery to explain how thin...
DAVID MAJOR I can think of no place in Washington in which more damage had taken place than there.
DAVID MAJOR Any place you look in this city you will see the ghost of intelligence collection.
DAVID MAJOR Maybe he was intrigued with the game and not the gain.
DAVID MAJOR

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too m...
JOHN MAJOR

Wake up America.

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