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Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.
Bryant H. McGill

Education, Past, Reason

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
Bryant H. McGill

Hope, Freedom, Blessed

Unfortunately, your reputation often rests not on your ability to do what you say, but rather on your ability to do what people expect.
Bryant H. McGill

Often, Expect, Reputation

I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.
Mariah Carey

Happen, Pig, Duet

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
Colin Firth

Work, Good, Thought

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.
Gilda Radner

Cancer, Gave, Club

Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Philosophy, Means, Whoever

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
Nick Cave

Artist, State, Ready

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
Dan Quayle

Him, Public, President

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
Candice Bergen

Beauty, Others, Sense

I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
Billy Wilder

Sleep, Another, Hotel

I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
Francesca Annis

Character, Trying, Learn

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
Natalie Portman

Smart, Care, Career

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Thomas Hardy

Beautiful, Woman, After

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton

After, Others, Weak

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.
Brian Eno

Picture, Tv, Narrative

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
Pope Paul VI

Life, Control, Order

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
Bill Hybels

Same, Problems, Else

Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
David Hockney

Mind, Playing, Ahead

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
Maynard James Keenan

Hope, Trying, Artists

Even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be? Which country would you trade places with?
Marco Rubio

Today, Country, Problems

I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.
Daniel Radcliffe

Long, Wrong, Else

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
Herbert Read

Nature, State, Modern

CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'
Conan O'Brien

Crazy, Bad, Said

Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue through which emotional storytelling can be transferred.
Simon Mainwaring

Emotional, Through, Treat

When thinking through who to bring together to generate new ideas, it is more effective to combine specialists from very different and unrelated disciplines rather than a variety of people with different skills sets in the same field.
Simon Mainwaring

Thinking, Together, Different

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
Ann Landers

Television, Proved

Women would rather be right than reasonable.
Ogden Nash

Women, Reasonable

I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
Eric Cantona

Win, Play, Lose

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.
Shigeru Miyamoto

Movies, Trying, Making

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