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35 Cards in this Set
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"Being ____ is not so much a shame as being ____ to learn." ( ____ ____ )
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"Being IGNORANT is not so much a shame as being UNWILLING to learn." ( BENJAMIN FRANKLIN )
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"Those who don't ____ have no ____ over those who can't." ( ____ )
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"Those who don't READ have no ADVANTAGE over those who can't." ( ANONYMOUS )
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"Behold the ____. He makes ____ when he ____ his neck out." ( James Conant)
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"Behold the TURTLE. He makes PROGRESS when he STICKS his neck out." ( James Conant )
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"____ is to the mind what ____ is to the body." ( Richard Steele )
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"READING is to the mind what EXERCISE is to the body." (Richard Steele )
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"____ is a race between ____ and ____." ( ____ ____ )
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"CIVILIZATION is a race between EDUCATION and CATASTROPHE." ( H.G. WELLS )
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"Being ____ is an ____ to oneself." ( Jules Renard )
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"Being BORED is an INSULT to oneself." (Jules Renard )
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"____ of the future is a waste of the ____." ( ____ )
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"FEAR of the future is a waste of the PRESENT." (ANONYMOUS)
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"When in ____, tell the ____." ( ____ ____ )
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"When in DOUBT, tell the TRUTH." ( MARK TWAIN )
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"People who ____ into a ____ always make a bad ____." ( ____ ____ )
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"People who FLY into a RAGE always make a bad LANDING." ( WILL ROGERS )
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"No one can make you feel ____ without your ____." ( ____ ____ )
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"No one can make you feel INFERIOR without your CONSENT." ( ELEANOR ROOSEVELT )
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"____ without learning is always in ____, and learning without ____ is always in vain." ( John F. Kennedy )
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"LIBERTY without learning is always in PERIL, and learning without LIBERTY is always in vain." ( John F. Kennedy )
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"A foolish ____ is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by statesmen and ____ and divines." ( ____ ____ ____ )
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"A foolish CONSISTENCY is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by statesmen and PHILOSOPHERS and divines." ( RALPH WALDO EMERSON )
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"Most people are as ____ as they make up their minds to be." ( ____ ____ )
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"Most people are as HAPPY as they make up their minds to be." ( ABRAHAM LINCOLN )
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"____ is a weak man's ____ of strength." ( Eric Hoffer )
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"RUDENESS is a weak man's IMITATION of strength." ( Eric Hoffer )
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"It is better to ____ ____ and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." ( ____ ____ )
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"It is better to DESERVE HONORS and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." ( MARK TWAIN )
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"If a man hasn't ____ something that he will ____ for, he isn't fit to live." ( ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ )
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"If a man hasn't DISCOVERED something that he will DIE for, he isn't fit to live." ( DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. )
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"When you reread a ____ you do not see more in the ____ than you did before; you see more in ____ than there was before." ( ____ ____ )
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"When you reread a CLASSIC you do not see more in the BOOK than you did before; you see more in YOU than there was before." ( Clifton Fadiman )
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"One ____ is worth two ____." ( Benjamin Franklin )
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"One TODAY is worth two TOMORROWS." ( Benjamin Franklin )
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"I haven't ____, I've found ____ ways that don't work." ( ____ ____ )
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"I haven't FAILED, I've found TEN THOUSAND ways that don't work." ( THOMAS EDISON )
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"It is often ____ to fight for ____ than to live up to them." ( ____ ____ )
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"It is often EASIER to fight for PRINCIPLES than to live up to them." ( Adlai Stevenson )
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"During my ____ I have often had to ____ my own words, and on the whole I have found them a ____ diet." ( ____ ____ )
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"During my LIFE I have often had to eat my own WORDS, and on the whole I have found them a WHOLESOME diet." ( WINSTON CHURCHILL )
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"____ - so innocent, ____ as they are, as standing in a ____, how ____ for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to ____ them." ( ____ ____ )
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"WORDS - so innocent, POWERLESS as they are, as standing in a DICTIONARY, how POTENT for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to COMBINE them." ( NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE )
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"____ is the first chapter in the book of ____." ( ____ ____ )
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"HONESTY is the first chapter in the book of WISDOM." ( THOMAS JEFFERSON )
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"Use what ____ you possess: the ____ would be very ____ if no ____ sang there except those that sang best." ( ____ ____ ____ )
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"Use what TALENTS you possess: the WOODS would be very SILENT if no BIRDS sang there except those that sang BEST." ( Henry Van Dyle )
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"____ is my ____. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious ____ of my book friends. They talk to me without ____ or awkwardness." ( ____ ____ )
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"LITERATURE is my UTOPIA. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious DISCOURSE of my book friends. They talk to me without EMBARRASSMENT or awkwardness." ( HELEN KELLER )
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"Don't use a ____ to remove a ____ from a friend's ____." ( Chinese Proverb )
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"Don't use a HATCHET to remove a FLY from a friend's FOREHEAD." ( Chinese Proverb )
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"The problem with ____ is that they're just like their ____ were at their age." ( ____ )
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"The problem with TEENAGERS is that they're just like their PARENTS were at their age." ( ANONYMOUS )
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"Put it before them ____ so they will read it, ____ so they will appreciate it, ____ so they will remember it, and, above all, ____ so they will be guided by its light." ( Joseph Pulitzer )
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"Put it before them BRIEFLY so they will read it, CLEARLY so they will appreciate it, PICTURESQUELY so they will remember it, and, above all, ACCURATELY so they will be guided by its light." ( Joseph Pulitzer )
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"The only way to ____ a friend is to be ____." ( ____ ____ ____ )
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"The only way to HAVE a friend is to be ONE." ( RALPH WALDO EMERSON )
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"People who are ____ on ____ are wearing them on the ____ end." ( Anonymous )
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"People who are RESTING on LAURELS are wearing them on the WRONG end." ( Anonymous )
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"Even if you are on the ____ ____, you'll get ____ ____ if you just ____ ____." ( ____ ____ )
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"Even if you are on the RIGHT TRACK, you'll get RUN OVER if you just SIT THERE." ( WILL ROGERS )
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"Which can say more than this ____ ____ - that you ____ are ____." ( ____ ____ )
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"Which can say more than this RICH PRAISE - that you ALONE are YOU." ( WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE )
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"To ____ without ____ is like ____ without ____."( ____ ____ )
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"To READ without REFLECTING is like EATING without DIGESTING." ( EDMUND BURKE )
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"It is not ____ which ____ us with ____ ____, but ____ which we have ____." ( ____ ____ )
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"It is not IMPOSSIBILITIES which FILL us with DEEPEST DESPAIR, but POSSIBILITIES which we have REALIZED." ( ROBERT MALLET )
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"Do what you ____, ____ what you ____, ____ you are." ( ____ ____ )
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"Do what you CAN, WITH what you HAVE, WHERE you are." ( THEODORE ROOSEVELT )
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