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«You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence»
Author: Charles Austin Beard
(Educator, Historian)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
founding, Founding Fathers, go about, phrases, reflect, repeating, These Days
«The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers»
Author: Jean Piaget
(Psychologist)
| About:
Creativity,
Education,
Goals
| Keywords:
capable, create, creative, discoverer, discoverers, education, generations, goal, inventive, New Man, principle, repeating, simply
«What the 21st century will be like depends on whether we learn the lessons of the 20th century and avoid repeating its worst mistakes - For example, it would be disastrous if we began to renew our entire system of social relations by acting like a bu»
Author: Mikhail Gorbachev
(President)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
disastrous, for example, renew, repeating, social relations, social system, The 20th Century, The 21st Century
«There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Childhood
| Keywords:
absurdity, firmly, human head, impose, planted, repeating, solemnities, solemnity
«QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.Intent on making his quotation truer, He sought the page infallible of Brewer, Then made a solemn vow that we would be Condemned eternally. Ah, me, ah, me! --Stumpo Gaker»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
brewer, erroneously, infallible, intent on, quotation, repeating, truer, vow
«Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.»
«Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.»
«It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
preventing, repeating, repetitions, worthwhile
«We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.»
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