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"Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours."

"Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours."

Frank Moore Colby, American Educator

15

"I'd always been interested in psychology."

"I'd always been interested in psychology."

Morrie Schwartz, American Educator

15

"When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in."

"When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in."

Daniel Greenberg, American Educator

Kids, Play, World

15

"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."

"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."

Maria Montessori, Italian Educator

15

"This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community."

"This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community."

William P. Leahy, American Educator

Opportunity, Community, Crisis, Help

15

"If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals."

"If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals."

Robert Conklin, American Educator

Power, Decision, Goals, Strength

15

"They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors."

"They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors."

James Lipton, American Educator

Actor, Actors, Will

15

"It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free."

"It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free."

Vinoba Bhave, Indian Educator

15

"My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided."

"My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided."

Edward Tufte, American Educator

Nature, Idea, Culture, Gender

15

"The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society."

"The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Power, Society, Blame, Media

15

"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."

"If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

Happiness, Care, Freedom

15

"Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."

"Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."

Booker T. Washington, American Educator

Work, Hardwork, Nothing, Result

15

"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."

"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect."

Robert M. Hutchins, American Educator

15

"If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not."

"If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not."

James Baldwin, American Educator

15

"The problem is we need much more moral content."

"The problem is we need much more moral content."

Cornel West, American Educator

14

"In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled."

"In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled."

Paul Eldridge, American Educator

14

"There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent."

"There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent."

John Sexton, American Educator

Job, Manipulation

14

"I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child."

"I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child."

Anne Sullivan, American Educator

Love, Thought, Knowledge, Mind

14

"Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is."

"Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is."

William P. Leahy, American Educator

Church, May, Teaching

14

"Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it."

"Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it."

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian Educator

Mistake, Mistakes, Tomorrow

14

"The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States."

"The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States."

Stephen Cohen, American Educator

Gorbachev, States, United

14

"Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit."

"Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit."

Freda Adler, American Educator

14

"Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university."

"Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university."

James E. Rogers, American Educator

Life, Sports, Success, College

14

"I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work."

"I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work."

Edward Tufte, American Educator

Work, Software, Style, Workers

14

"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."

"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."

Frank Moore Colby, American Educator

Communication, Improvement

14

"The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true."

"The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true."

Catharine Beecher, American Educator

Race, Right, Teachers, Want

14

"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."

"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."

Frank Moore Colby, American Educator

14

"Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt."

"Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt."

Lawrence Lessig, American Educator

Power, Ideas, Doubt

14

"History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another."

"History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

History, Environment, Man

14

"For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act."

"For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act."

Paul Farmer, American Educator

Act, Clarity, Suffering, Tools

14

"I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours."

"I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours."

John Hope, American Educator

Thinking, Waking

14

"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."

"The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

Respect, Gentleman, Service

14

"As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own."

"As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own."

Leon Kass, American Educator

14

"All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so."

"All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

14

"At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease."

"At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease."

Paul Farmer, American Educator

Time, Disease, Fact, Obvious

14

"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."

"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."

Amos Bronson Alcott, American Educator

14

"Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century."

"Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building a dynamic and innovative economy equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century."

John Hutton, English Educator

Building, Economy

14

"Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture."

"Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture."

Leon Kass, American Educator

Danger, Example

14

"I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever."

"I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever."

Daniel Greenberg, American Educator

14

"Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you."

"Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you."

Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator

God, Idea, Affliction, Caring

14

"Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real."

"Evolutionary naturalism takes the inherent limitations of science and turns them into a devastating philosophical weapon: because science is our only real way of knowing anything, what science cannot know cannot be real."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

Science, Limitations

14

"The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began."

"The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

Life, Nature, Science, Rules

14

"When I teach people, I marry them."

"When I teach people, I marry them."

Sylvia Ashton-Warner, New Zealander Educator

People, Newzealander

14

"Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed."

"Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed."

William Vickrey, Canadian Educator

Performance, Past

14

"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century."

"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

Life, Fear, Disease, Favorite

14

"Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency."

"Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

14

"The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure."

"The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure."

Robert C. Solomon, American Educator

Finance, Financial, May, Russia, World

14

"Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti."

"Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti."

Paul Farmer, American Educator

People, Boston, Living

14

"In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord."

"In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord."

Vinoba Bhave, Indian Educator

Change, Chance, Fulfillment, Will

14

"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."

"I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

Reading, Forget

14

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