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Quotes by Educator
"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world."
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"Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality."
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"Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition."
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"The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years."
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"Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle."
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"I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in."
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"What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it."
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"Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure."
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"Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power."
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"Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence."
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"If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem."
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"If we took Chaucer's writings at face value, we'd have to conclude he was a complete drip."
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"Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other."
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"And, in the past, it has been all too easy for legislators to load costs onto business in order to meet broader social goals. And costs for business means costs for consumers."
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"Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy."
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"To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike."
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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."
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"Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him."
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"Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations."
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"The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything.""
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"Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man."
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"Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture."
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"By no means do I anticipate screening those who come on to campus... And I have no difficulty if a bishop across the country or some local pastor may say that's not Catholic teaching - that's fine."
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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
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"They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method."
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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."
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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."
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"If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks."
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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."
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"The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent."
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