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Quotes by Educator
"At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences."
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"It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not."
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"It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true."
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"On private transactions, I'll just go very quickly now, a major difference between the United States and Euroland is that in Europe banks are much more important in financial transactions than in the United States."
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"Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions."
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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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"When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it."
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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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"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."
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"A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness."
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"If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age."
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"We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps."
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"The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically."
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"But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you."
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"The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon."
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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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"Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."
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"Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada."
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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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"Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway."
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"Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems."
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"We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."
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"You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York."
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