Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed.
Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
I don't hold myself out as a role model. I don't believe that everyone should make the same choices; that everyone has to want to be a CEO, or everyone should want to be a work-at-home mother. I want everyone to be able to choose. But I want us to be able to choose unencumbered by gender choosing for us.
Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.
Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.
Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.
Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.
Most leaders spend time trying to get others to think highly of them, when instead they should try to get their people to think more highly of themselves. It's wonderful when the people believe in their leader. It's more wonderful when the leader believes in their people! You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.
The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.
Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will.
When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.
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