"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."
-Robert E. Lee
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"Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret."
-Robert E. Lee
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"The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides."
-Robert E. Lee
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"It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it."
-Robert E. Lee
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"What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors."
-Robert E. Lee
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"I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God."
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain
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"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
-Alexandre Dumas
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle
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"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
-Carl Rogers
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"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
-Charlotte Bronte
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"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
-Derek Bok
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