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“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.”
Charles Handy
“Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own”
Samuel Johnson
“Among individuals as among nations, the respect to other people's rights is peace”
Benito Juarez
“If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone 'America died from a delusion that she had moral leadership'.”
Will Rogers
“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”
Winston Churchill
“The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive, but in spite of their religion, not because of it”
Mark Twain
“Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.”
Dalai Lama
“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.”
George Carlin
“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
William Blake
