Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a childs coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
Louis L'Amour
The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.
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Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am today, that I will be tomorrow."
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He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
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Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before it takes something from him.
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Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
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A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.
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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
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To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
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Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
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No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.
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Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them down and hog-time them.
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For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.
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This -- this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice.. A moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
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Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
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