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Letter "A" » accumulations
«The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.»
Author: Tryon Edwards
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Theologian)
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About:
Education,
Learning,
Thinking
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Keywords:
accumulation,
accumulations,
discipline,
fill,
furnish,
furnished with,
furnishing,
powers,
train
«When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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Keywords:
accumulation,
accumulations,
acquired,
biologically,
carry through,
contemplate,
Fed,
garbage,
garbage can,
guilt,
harmless,
incompetent,
incompetents,
incurably,
lightest,
organized,
poison,
putrefied,
putrefy,
rat,
remorse,
seventies,
seventy,
span,
spanned,
spanning,
spans,
The WELL,
thrown
«The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny»
Author: James Madison
(
President)
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About:
Power
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Keywords:
accumulation,
accumulations,
appointed,
appointing,
appoints,
definition,
elective,
executive,
Executive power,
hereditary,
judiciary,
justly,
legislative,
Legislative power,
powers,
pronounced,
pronouncing,
self-appointed