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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. Arnold J. Toynbee

Overcome Enthusiasm First Practice Imagination Definite Carrying Only Takes Ideal Aroused Intelligible Storm Apathy Plan Things Second Two

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. Benjamin Disraeli

Learning Liberty Light Place Should University

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. Bertrand Russell

Mathematics Man Sense Exaltation Spirit Touchstone More Poetry Excellence Delight Highest True Surely True Spirit Than Being Which Found

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. Bertrand Russell

Judgment Fact Hallucination Error Based

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell

Fear Every Once Eccentric Accepted Opinion Now

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Bertrand Russell

You Long Healthy Mark Taken Taken For Granted Healthy Thing Affairs Question Question Mark Hang Then Granted Now Now And Then Thing Things

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. Bertrand Russell

People Think Would Fact Sooner Most Than Die In Fact

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. Bertrand Russell

Happiness You Secret Possible Rather Hostile Reactions Friendly Than As Far As The Secret Of Interest Far Persons Interests Your Wide Things

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. Bertrand Russell

Problem Fear Half Boredom Vital Moralist Since Caused Sins Mankind

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue. Brian Eno

Great Me You Yourself People Feelings Singing Become Community Group Virtue Way Lies About Self Empathy Sing Learn Because How Stop Being While Little Social Us Little While Consciousness

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. Charles Spurgeon

Men Difficulties Tremendous Owe Grandeur Many Lives

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. Charles Spurgeon

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God's loving-kindness. Charles Spurgeon

God Law Fear Victory Christ Judgment Final Our Both Through Thunder Roaring Terror Won Salvation Us Used Bring

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do. Charles Spurgeon

Hope God Prayer Reflection Else Thousand More Throne Delightful Feel Come Most Prayers Than May Anything Anything Else Defects Dissatisfied

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush. Charles Spurgeon

Men Few Own Back Dare Would Entire Entire Career Recorded Look Read Without Were Few Men Autobiography Blush Deeds Career

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people. Daphne Guinness

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold. Ed Miliband

Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it. Eric Burdon

Somewhere Changes Changing Everything Everything Changes Along Line

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage. Felix Dennis

Hope Bullying You Cause Power Definition Corrupted Empire Empires Know Affairs Infancy America Bureaucratic Certain Now

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. George Eliot

Veterans Day Reward Power Duty Another Fulfill

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. George Eliot

Peace Election Poultry Sincere Coming Interest Lives Universal Foxes

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. George Eliot

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