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Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity? ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#better #book #books #consist #drawing

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#been #before #change #change things #film

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. ↗

— John Cheever

#discover #life #make #need #sense

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#loneliness #marry #you

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#characterized #convict #corrupt #else #embittered

I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#businesses #create #did #early #effort

If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#businesses #down #extent #go #going

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life. ↗

— John Updike

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A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#blessings #change #comes #heart #more

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ↗

— John Updike

#artists #behalf #content #distinguishes #entertainers