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“Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.”

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William Ellery Channing was an American preacher and theologian, born on April 7, 1780, and died on October 2, 1842. He played a significant role in the American religious reform movement and is known for his contributions to liberal theology. more

“No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.”

Men Giving Should Mind Important Hands Beautiful Culture Conditions Labor Luxury Sensibility Excluded Coarse

Author:William Ellery Channing

“Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.”

“The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals.”

Doe Games Language Player Pressure Democratic Rate Fancy Idle Fashionable Jars Second Rate

Author:John Simon

“Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.”

Years Wells Enough Political Officials Candidates Arena Elected Officials

Author:Jim Hightower

“The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.”

Children Doe School Responsibility Teaching Tasks Assuming Accomplish Sublime Solemn Elementary School

Book:First Lessons: A Report on Elementary Education in America

Source: First Lessons: A Report on Elementary Education in America

“In America nature is autocratic, saying, "I am not arguing, I am telling you.”

America Arguing

Author:Erik Erikson

“These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves the elder in a review of his or her own years of active responsibility for nurturing the next generations, and also in an integration of earlier-life experiences of caring and of self-concern in relation to previous generations.”

Source: Vital Involvement in Old Age

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