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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#after #aims #develop #done #hand

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it! ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#books #consultation #democratic #determination #discuss

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance. ↗

— Shania Twain

#give #important #while #you

In this ever-changing world, it's more important than ever that our top-notch military continues to receive the resources needed to serve and protect our country. ↗

— Max Baucus

#country #ever #ever-changing #important #military

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #because #contains #deformities #disproportion

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#impresses #nearly #originality #our #sensibility

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#creates #fair #family #find #found

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#great man #important #important thing #man #oneself

Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this. ↗

— Shania Twain

#because #fulfilled #give #going #i

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#education #how #i #important #know