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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Ihavethegood fortuneto be the first Liberal forover half a century who is able to say to you at the end of our annual Assembly, go back to your constituencies and prepare for government.
Steel, David Martin Scott Steel, Baron— 1981 Speech at party conference,18 Sep.
Qui desiderat pacem, praeparat bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
— c.380 AD Epitoma Rei Miltaris, no.3, prologue.This became familiar in the MiddleAges as Si vis pacem para bellum (If you want peace, prepare for war).
If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.
jonathan edwards— P. 540. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.
— Speech at Williamsburg College (15 May 1953).
Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).
antonio gramsci— Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971)
Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. This is what life has taught me.
katherine mansfield— Journal entry (29 January 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
"The "futures" and "careers" for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers' paradise would have us grow up to be well-behaved children. But an important minority of men and women coming to the front today have shown they will die rather than be standardized, replaceable, and irrelevant.
mario savio— "An End to History" Humanity (December 1964)
Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, despite the loss of face this would entail in the losing of all Italy, then the course of the war, if not the outcome, would have been quite different.
christopher vokes— Italy, p. 133
Joy to the world! the Lord is come;Let earth receive her King.Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room,And heav'n and nature sing,And heaven and nature sing,And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.
Isaac Watts— Stanza 1.
In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn’t yet appeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.
Anton Chekhov— Act I (The Three Sisters (1901))
For it is certain that the future will bring realities for which our traditional optimism fails to prepare us and against which our economic momentum fails to arm us.
robert heilbroner— Chapter III, Part 12, The Deepening Confusion, p. 170
"Maybe the purpose of the space program [NASA] is to prepare the world for Big Brother - the New World Order."
kent hovind— Q&A Session II @ 30:50 ]
I sat in my studio and painted, and did not need Nature as a prompter (after 1921, when he painted the series ‘Abstrakter Kopf’ –abstract Head, fh). I only had to immerse myself in myself, pray, and prepare my soul to a state of religious awareness. I painted many, many ‘Faces’.
alexej von jawlensky— Alexej von Jawlensky'’, Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam; 25/9 – 27/11-1994, p. 186
To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever over an accident that has no remedy. But since all the precautions that a man can take are full of uneasiness and uncertainty, it is better to prepare with fine assurance for the worst that can happen, and derive some consolation from the fact that we are not sure that it will happen.
Michel de Montaigne— Book I, ch. 25
The word 'campaign' is a war term. So when you go into a campaign you just prepare to go to war. If you think this is an exercise in civic activity...then you are going to be surprised.-1985
nancy pelosi— Herrnson, Paul S. (2003). "Women Running "as Women": Candidate Gender, Campaign Issues, and Voter-Targeting Strategies". 'The Journal of Politics' 65 no. 1.
Young people -it is obvious -cannot achieve such a relationship, but they can, if they understand their life properly, grow up slowly to such happiness and prepare themselves for it. They must not forget, when they love, that they are beginners, bunglers of life, apprentices in love- must learn love, and that like all learning wants peace, patience, and composure.
Rainer Maria Rilke— On young couples who have not yet matured enough to recognize and respect each other's solitudeLetter Seven (14 May 1904)
Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene; Resumes them, to prepare us for the next.
— Edward Young, p. 9. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Originally this parable was intended to teach preparedness for certain developments that were to take place in Jesus’ earthly ministry. Later, however, after the crisis in Jesus’ ministry to which the parable first pointed had passed, the church modified the parable, adding an eschatological setting in order to prepare men for the final world crisis which was then believed to be approaching.
— Gospel of Matthew (Matt 25: 1-12) in The Bible and the Future, p.294
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act III, scene 2, line 173.
Joy to the world, the Lord is come, let earth receive her King! Let every heart prepare Him room. And heav'n and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.
— Isaac Watts, in "Joy to the World!" (1719), Stanza 1.
And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.
william wordsworth— William Wordsworth, Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots.
If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.
jonathan edwards— Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895, pg. 540)
Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
— Traditional proverb, as found in Roger L'Estrange, Seneca's Morals (1702)
Open your door to a good day and prepare yourself for a bad one.
— Anonymous proverb, quoted in Racial Proverbs : A Selection of the World's Proverbs Arranged Linguistically (1963) edited by Selwyn Gurney Champion
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. prepare to die.
Inigo Montoya— Played by by Mandy Patinkin in The Princess Bride (1987).
prepare for your death, Leon!
— Who: Jack Krauser
— Note: Last words before battling Leon, who defeats Krauser in battle.
MEGATRON:;!!! The great transformation awaits, Megatron... prepare to be reformatted.
— Who: Optimus Primal
— Note: Character actually died twice. The first line is said to his nemesis, Megatron, who had sabotaged Primal's shuttle to kill him. The second line is said to Megatron as they both plummet into Cybertron's organic core, reformatting the planet into a paradise and killing them both.
prepare to join your scout in the Allspark!
— Who: Megatron
— Source: Deadlock
— Note: After terminating Bumblebee, Megatron attempts to kill Optimus with the Dark Star Saber when Bumblebee suddenly appears and runs him through with the Star Saber, finally killing him. His body then falls over the edge and down to Earth.
