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Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.

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William Butler Yeats
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Category: Education

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Age is only a number a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
  • 2. Even from a very early age I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
  • 3. Well once you've resigned yourself to the fact that you are the more mature pop performer and you're past the age you ever thought you would do it you might as well do it as long as you can. As long as I can still lift a microphone then I'll do it you know.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Listen a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!
  • 2. I mean there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
  • 3. I have experienced some amazing food! Yet when I think about the most luxurious and exquisite meals I have had visions of simple food made from a few natural ingredients are what most excite me.

3 Anger

  • 1. And I think there's something about conservatives frankly – and the Left when it comes to their channels of persuasion are unpersuasive. They are most of them are hate-filled obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
  • 2. I get in trouble when I say things like 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
  • 3. My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior but should be based on the facts.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970 when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
  • 2. June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.
  • 3. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
  • 2. In Los Angeles by the time you're 35 you're older than most of the buildings.
  • 3. The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
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