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10 Quotes for 'John Jay Chapman' in the Database.
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John Jay Chapman Quotes
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There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
Topic: Agreement
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The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.
Topic: Inspirational
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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
Topic: Negativity
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. - Memories and Milestones.
Topic: Philosophy
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The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
Topic: Politics / Government
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
Topic: Relationships
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There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.
Topic: Society
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You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.
Topic: Society
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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
Topic: Worry
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