Great Throughts Treasury

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Eugene Peterson

If we're trying to set education policy, we have to listen to the education experts.

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Defeat | Future | Mistake | Nature | Need | Obedience | Organic | Past | Unity | Vision | Will |

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Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

Child labor must be abolished by the working class.

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Better | Comfort | Culture | Day | Health | Labor |

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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).

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Darkness | Death | Defeat | Earth | Failure | Hope | Life | Life | Light | Love | Mystery | Nothing | Power | Reading | Sadness | Will | Failure |

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Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

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Change | Defeat | Future | Life | Life | Nothing | Present | Child |

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Felix Adler

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

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Good | Human race | Progress | Race | Religion | Space | Will | World |

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Ezra Taft Benson

The moment you begin a serious study of the scriptures, you will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to avoid deception. You will find the power to stay on the straight and narrow path... When you begin to hunger and thirst after those words, you will find life in greater abundance.

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Freedom | Illusion | Invention | Men | People | Rights | Work | Intellect |

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J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.

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Aid | Government | Need | Praise | Government |

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