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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

~A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Topics: Beings Created Education Enlightened Expertise Good Good Human Human Human Beings Make Purpose Skill Teachers

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I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

~A. Scott Berg

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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

~Adam Ferguson

Topics: Action Ages Any Blindness Design Enlightened Equal Even Every Every Step Execution Future Human Indeed Made Movement Multitude Nations Result Step Stumble Which

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I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.

~Alanis Morissette

Topics: Am Become Believer Enlightened Firm Firm Believer One Way Possibly Relaxed Way You I Am

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It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.

~Alexander Haig

Topics: Bloody Done Enlightened Executed Followed Had Liberal Long Months More More People Next People Reactionary Realize Regime Take Than Three Which World Years

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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

~Alexis De Tocqueville

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Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Actually Because Become Enlightened Leads Self-Knowledge Sexuality Us Ways

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I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious.

~Alice Waters

Topics: Addictions Adult Because Being Break Delicious Enlightened Even Famous Feed Focused Generation Got Habit Hard Just Money Most Next Next Generation People Salt Something Spend Students Sugar Takes Think Universities Very Ways Wealthy World I Think

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In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.

~Amor Towles

Topics: Attractive Before Behavior Cake Century Contemporary Different Different Way Enlightened Expression Finishes Inward Like Manners Nobility Off Outward Politeness Struggle Surface Sweet Them Think Thinkers Very Viewed Way World 19Th Century

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We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.

~Anand Giridharadas

Topics: Capital Enlightened Get Know Rid Slave Trade

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