Quotes by Educator | Beyond Motive 11/31

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"Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about."

"Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about."

Seth Lloyd, American Educator

History, Life, Sex, Civilization

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"There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all."

"There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all."

Robert C. Solomon, American Educator

Politics, Being, Connection, Europe

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"If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit."

"If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people to build upon as they see fit."

Lawrence Lessig, American Educator

People, Internet, Value

4

"The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right."

"The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right."

Leon Kass, American Educator

4

"There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen."

"There would be no idling in a co-operative workshop. Each workman, being an employer, has a spur to his own industry, and has a pecuniary reason for being watchful of the industry of his fellow workmen."

Leland Stanford, American Educator

4

"We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years."

"We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years."

Leon Kass, American Educator

4

"Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them."

"Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them."

Horace Mann, American Educator

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"There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label."

"There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label."

Temple Grandin, American Educator

Family, Children

4

"Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still."

"Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still."

Robert Sternberg, American Educator

Commitment, Intimacy, Passion

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"How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!"

"How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!"

Max Muller, German Educator

Time, Day, Mankind, May

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"If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive."

"If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive."

James E. Rogers, American Educator

Being, Duty, Investment

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"We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended."

"We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Materialism, Measure

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"The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems."

"The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems."

Leland Stanford, American Educator

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"Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information."

"Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information."

Seth Lloyd, American Educator

Time, Information

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"Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief."

"Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief."

William Vickrey, Canadian Educator

Balance, Nothing, Will

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"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."

"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."

Tom G. Palmer, American Educator

4

"This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth."

"This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth."

Lawrence Lessig, American Educator

Control, Value, Worth

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"It is a sin to be poor."

"It is a sin to be poor."

Charles Fillmore, American Educator

4

"The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."

"The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly."

James Baldwin, American Educator

Beauty, People, Ugly

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"What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College."

"What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College."

William P. Leahy, American Educator

Boston, College

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"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

Horace Mann, American Educator

Education, Men, Balance

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"The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by."

"The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by."

Felix Adler, German Educator

Life, Men, Light, World

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"According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example."

"According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

Nature, History, God, Example

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"But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency."

"But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency."

John Hutton, English Educator

Ambition, Needs, Presidency, Will

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"Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them."

"Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them."

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, American Educator

Faith, Equality, Liberty, Now

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"Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for."

"Opponents of cap and trade should be careful what they wish for."

Joshua A. Tucker, American Educator

Politics, Opponents, Trade

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"Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children."

"Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children."

Leon Kass, American Educator

Life, Care, Children, Responsibility

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"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."

"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

People, May, Mountains, Numbers

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"There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more."

"There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more."

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian Educator

4

"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

Amos Bronson Alcott, American Educator

Fulfillment, Company, May, Old, Years

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"The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black."

"The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black."

James Baldwin, American Educator

4

"From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice."

"From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice."

Julius Wellhausen, German Educator

History, Temple, Building, Justice

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"Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary, the EU must embrace a new approach to lawmaking."

"Yet in order to make sure the European social model keeps up with the pace of economic change that is now necessary, the EU must embrace a new approach to lawmaking."

John Hutton, English Educator

Change, Now, Order

4

"I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful."

"I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful."

Leon Kass, American Educator

Success, Successful

4

"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."

"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."

Quintilian, Roman Educator

Ambition, Cause, Vice

4

"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

Amos Bronson Alcott, American Educator

Delight, Expectation, Profit

4

"Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics."

"Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics."

Seth Lloyd, American Educator

Life, Death, Law, Nothing

4

"It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming."

"It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming."

John Sexton, American Educator

Success, Age, Results

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"In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion."

"In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion."

Carol P. Christ, American Educator

Nature, Religion, Ethics, Injustice

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"As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone."

"As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone."

Quintilian, Roman Educator

Family, Fathers, Parents

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"Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith."

"Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

Change, Faith, Courage, Principles

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"Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding."

"Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding."

Charles Vest, American Educator

Government, Partnership, Research

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"A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts."

"A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts."

Joseph Lancaster, English Educator

Christian, Evil, Public, United

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"There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government."

"There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government."

William Vickrey, Canadian Educator

Government, Justification

4

"It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach."

"It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach."

Benjamin E. Mays, American Educator

Life, Lie, Goal, Lies

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

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

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

Respect, Service

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"Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science."

"Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science."

Seth Lloyd, American Educator

Science, Work, People

4

"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."

"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."

Leon Kass, American Educator

Technology, People

4

"Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God."

"Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God."

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator

God, Light, World, Worship

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"But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow."

"But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow."

John Hutton, English Educator

Action, Challenge, Doubt, Economy

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