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Quotes by Educator

"Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect."

"In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years."

"As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear."

"It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition."

"If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you."


"A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture."

"And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television."

"Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly."

"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."

"American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so."

"Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ."

"I am in favor of carrying out the Declaration of Independence to women as well as men. Women having to suffer the burdens of society and government should have their equal rights in it. They do not receive their rights in full proportion."

"Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week."

"Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting."

"Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can."

"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."

"Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative to that of the US than any time since the 1960's."

"More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU."

"After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted."

"A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples."

"If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe."

"Meat is a mighty contributor to climate change and other environmental problems. The amount of meat we're eating is one of the leading causes of climate change. It's as important as the kind of car you drive - whether you eat meat a lot or how much meat you eat."

"He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain."

"Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country."

"Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."
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