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"It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do."

"It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do."

Betty Dodson, American Educator

Sex, Man, Questions

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"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron."

Horace Mann, American Educator

Desire, Inspiring

14

"In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances."

"In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances."

Seth Lloyd, American Educator

Technology, Atoms, Circumstances, Information, Language

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"In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated."

"In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

14

"Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar."

"Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar."

Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss Educator

Language, Grammar

14

"There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries."

"There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries."

Robert C. Solomon, American Educator

Growth, Countries, Stability

14

"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."

"Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit."

Leon Kass, American Educator

Nation, Countries, Foolishness

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"You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor."

"You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

Home, Money, Honor, Job

14

"Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality."

"Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

Faith, Science, Reality, Rules

14

"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

14

"The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves."

"The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves."

Tom G. Palmer, American Educator

Documentation, First, Name

14

"In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion."

"In a very alert and bright state of society people learn co-operation by themselves, but in older and quieter conditions of laboring enterprise, such a bill as I propose will point out the way to mutual exertion."

Leland Stanford, American Educator

Society, People, State, Will

14

"Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them."

"Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them."

Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator

People, Whisper, Will

14

"We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."

"We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."

Frank Moore Colby, American Educator

14

"The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another."

"The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another."

Seth Low, American Educator

Family, Brotherhood, Dependence, Man, Obligation

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"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."

"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."

Quintilian, Roman Educator

14

"If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized, monoculture agriculture because big likes to buy from big. So I realized, wow, how we cook or whether we cook has a huge bearing on what kind of agriculture we're going to have."

"If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized, monoculture agriculture because big likes to buy from big. So I realized, wow, how we cook or whether we cook has a huge bearing on what kind of agriculture we're going to have."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Sustainability, Food, Choice, Health, Agriculture

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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

14

"The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good."

"The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good."

Leon Kass, American Educator

Ethics, Thinking

14

"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."

"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death."

Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator

Death, Faith, Life, Doubt

14

"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions."

"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions."

Tom G. Palmer, American Educator

Question, Questions

14

"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

14

"We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us."

"We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us."

Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian Educator

Future, Mistakes, Regret

14

"There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish."

"There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish."

Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish Educator

Love, Happiness, Man, Suffering

14

"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."

"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."

Frank Moore Colby, American Educator

Creativity, Idea

14

"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

14

"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

14

"And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again."

"And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again."

Robert Sternberg, American Educator

Research, Testing, Wrong

14

"BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community."

"BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community."

William P. Leahy, American Educator

Church, Community, Reform

14

"It's insane to try to balance the budget."

"It's insane to try to balance the budget."

William Vickrey, Canadian Educator

14

"The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands."

"The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands."

Seth Low, American Educator

Politics, America, Name, States, United

14

"Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway."

"Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway."

Robert Anthony, American Educator

14

"When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters."

"When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters."

John Sexton, American Educator

Ability, Eyes, Nothing, Tears

14

"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

14

"If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven."

"If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven."

Christopher Love, Welsh Educator

Love, Earth, Grace, Heaven

14

"You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York."

"You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York."

William Lyon Phelps, American Educator

Nature, Bible, Humannature, Living

14

"Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change."

"Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change."

Daniel Greenberg, American Educator

Age, Change, People, Culture

14

"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."

"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."

Amos Bronson Alcott, American Educator

Life, Thought, Man, Sense

14

"The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences."

"The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences."

Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss Educator

14

"We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act."

"We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act."

Emily Greene Balch, American Educator

Act, Cause, Events, Influence

14

"It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time."

"It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time."

Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss Educator

14

"No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings."

"No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

Nature, Knowledge, Majority, Occupations

14

"I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation."

"I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation."

William P. Leahy, American Educator

Criticism, States, United

14

"I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography."

"I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography."

John Sexton, American Educator

Life, Love, Environment, Photography

14

"In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home."

"In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

History, Home, America, Fact

14

"The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics."

"The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics."

Leon Kass, American Educator

Science, Genetics

14

"Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God."

"Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God."

Christopher Love, Welsh Educator

Family, God, May

14

"We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing."

"We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing."

Leon Kass, American Educator

People, Engineering, May, Talking

14

"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."

"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God."

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator

God, Failure, Being, Earth

14

"To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea."

"To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea."

Phillip E. Johnson, American Educator

God, Idea, Mind

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