Date: 1796
"It is the common doom of man that he must eat his bread by the sweat of his brow, that is, by the sweat of his body, or the sweat of his mind."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: 1796
"Conscience is formally deposed from its dominion over the mind."
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
Date: October 10, 1869
"Recitations alone readily degenerate into dusty repetitions, and lectures alone are too often a useless expenditure of force. The lecturer pumps laboriously into sieves. The water may be wholesome, but it runs through."
preview | full record— Eliot, Charles William (1834-1926)
Date: May 30, 2013
"And the key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional G.P.S. that can tell you which way to go."
preview | full record— Winfrey, Oprah (b. January 29, 1954)