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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. ↗

— Ed Miliband

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Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars! ↗

— Marvin Minsky

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Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

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Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution. ↗

— John Moody

#difficulties #even #even now #far #farmers

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools can be selective. It's not accurate or fair to compare the job they do. ↗

— Dennis Moore

#apples #compare #comparing #everyone #fair

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read. ↗

— Hannah More

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No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream. ↗

— Gustave Moreau

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If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best. ↗

— Rob Morrow

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A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights. ↗

— Lance Morrow

#animal rights #discussion #end #living #living room

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk. ↗

— Lance Morrow

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